IFAD × Rabo Partnerships · IFE-FST Initiative

Overview of Best Practices
at Selected NDBs

Eight programmes illustrating how National Development Banks across Latin America, Asia, and Europe are innovating to expand access to finance for smallholder farmers.

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Investment credit for sustainable agricultural practices combined with TA.

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Digital tool to provide real-time, personalised agronomic advice.

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Collateral free and subsidised credit to purchase agricultural inputs and withdraw cash for production expenses.

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Risk-sharing facility by FMO, the Dutch development bank, that covers losses beyond the normal expected default rates — rather than FLDG.

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Bond issuance to raise funding beyond its government budget allocations.

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Rural product note which allows producers to access WC by pledging future agricultural production as collateral.

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Collateral-free institutional credit to FPOs by providing credit guarantees to lending institutions.

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To protect the livelihoods of farmers engaged in animal husbandry, PKSF, in collaboration with ADB, has introduced a Livestock Insurance Scheme.

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Source: Rabo Partnerships, 2025. Overview of best practices at selected NDBs — IFE-FST Inception Report.