Conferences - Rural Finance Learning Center (RFLC)

: Rural Finance Research Conference, Rome, Italy

A number of conferences and workshops are organised each year which bring together experts and practitioners in the field of rural finance to discuss and share their experiences. In order to make the information presented at these meetings more widely available and enable non-participants to see the papers and presentations made, this section of the Rural Finance Learning Centre will be used to host materials from the most relevant events for a limited period of time.

FAO and the Investment Centre, with the support of the Legal office have organized a short seminar "Cream of the crop: the use of Grain Warehouse Receipts in agricultural finance" at FAO headquarters on June, 20th 2012. The seminar explored value chain finance with a focus on GWRs, and ways to give farmers easier access to credit through the collateralization of their crop.

Topics included:

1) Introducing product-based value chain finance
2) Grain warehouse receipts: benefits and ingredients for success
3) Informal use of inventory credit and GWRs: the case of Niger

Speakers:

Krassimir Kiriakov, Grain Warehouse Receipts Specialist;
Calvin Miller, Senior Rural Finance Officer, AGS;
Emilio Hernandez, Agricultural Finance Officer, AGS;
Philine Wehling, Legal Officers, LEGN.

The PPT's and filmed presentations can be viewed below.