From Finance to Productivity: Enabling Smallholder Farmers’ Growth at Scale

This session explores how ecosystem-based approaches that connect finance, markets, value chains, and data-driven risk solutions can help smallholders and agri-SMEs increase productivity, strengthen resilience, and unlock growth opportunities.

Bringing together financial institutions, agribusinesses, technology providers, and development partners, the discussion will examine innovative models that expand access to finance while improving market integration and risk management. Participants will explore how stronger partnerships across agrifood ecosystems can support sustainable food systems, create jobs, and enable smallholders and rural enterprises to thrive at scale.