Finance for Food
Subtitle: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance
By: Doris Köhn, editor
Contributors: Köhn, Doris (Banker), editor; KfW Bankengruppe
Publisher: Springer Open
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9783642540332
Subjects: Agriculture; Congresses; Finance; Rural development
Notes: Results of the "Ninth KfW Financial Sector Development Symposium with the title 'Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance'"--Page VI.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I.  The big picture : Global trends affecting agricultural finance; title: Global dynamics in agricultural and rural economy, and its effects on rural finance; title: Food security and a holistic finance for rural markets; title: Pt. II.  Institutional and process innovations in serving rural clients; title: Finance through food and commodity value chains in a globalized economy; title: Agricultural growth corridors; title: Innovative microfinance : Potential for serving rural markets sustainably; title: Busting agro-lending myths and back to banking basics : A case study of AccessBank's agricultural lending; title: Pt. III.  Dealing with risks in agricultural finance; title: Where is the risk?  Is agricultural banking really more difficult than other sectors?; title: The potential of structured finance to foster agricultural lending in developing countries; title: New approaches to agricultural insurance in developing economies; title: Pt. IV.  Using modern technology for high-quality services in rural areas; title: Reaching the client in geographically adverse conditions : Can outsourcing increase effectiveness and efficiency?; title: Tameer Bank's experiences with mobile banking; title: Poverty-sensitive scorecards to prioritize lending and grant allocation with an application in Central America; title: Index.