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This report presents the key message,
lessons, and insights from agrifin's first knowledge
exchange event, held in Hyderabad, India, March 7-12, 2011.
Agrifin is a special initiative aimed at building capacity
in agriculture finance for commercially-oriented
smallholders and small and medium enterprise (SME)
agribusiness market segments. The initiative, managed by the
World Bank, through generous support from the bill and
Melinda gates foundation, provides matching grant funding to
financial institutions and regulated microfinance
institutions that have a demonstrated potential for scaling
up sustainable business models in agriculture finance. in
complement to the grant funding, agrifin fosters learning in
the agriculture finance space by facilitating peer-to-peer
exchanges, such as this event, as well as by documenting and
sharing lessons learned with the broader public, based but
not exclusively on agrifin grant recipients'
experiences. This event provided an opportunity for
agrifin's partner financial institutions in Burkina
Faso, Cambodia, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Senegal, Sri Lanka,
and Uganda, together with senior World Bank experts, to
learn about sustainable practices in agricultural lending.
Participants had the opportunity to engage with senior
officials from three prominent financial institutions in
India (Andhra Bank, BASIX, and HDFC Bank).
