Agricultural Finance

This course is designed for people working or intending to work in the field of Agricultural Finance, either as employees in financial institutions or as advisors / consultants to financial institutions.

The course gives participants the opportunity to get an overview of current trends in the field of Agricultural Finance and to quickly absorb the core knowledge required to become an expert. Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of economics and finance.

Contents

Learning Target

After finishing the course the participants should have gained a deep and long lasting knowledge of the key principles and best practices applied in the field of Agricultural Finance, with a focus on smallholder farmers in developing countries.

The course content is very practice oriented with many exercises and case studies based on real life situations. Participants will benefit from this course throughout their entire professional career.  

Participants can use the time between the sessions to digest the learned content. Exercises will be given as homework task after each session which helps the learners to review the content and test their comprehension of the discussed topics.

Target Audience

Unit 1 – Introduction: basic knowledge of agriculture

• History and principles of Agricultural Finance
• Target groups of AF
• Suppliers of AF services
• Delivery models used in AF

• Agricultural credit
• Agricultural insurance
• Warehouse receipt finance and other product innovations in the field of AF
• Digital finance
• Value chain finance

• Governance
• Risk management
• Profitability management
• Social performance management
• Human resources management
• Marketing

• Methods used to measure financial and social performance
• Management practices to improve financial and social performance

Methodology

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Duration

4 Days

Customised Programmes

Everything we offer in our range of open seminars can be packaged and delivered as tailormade in-house training programmes for companies and organisations. We will be happy to advise you and create an individual offer on request.

Price advantage of 10% from the 2nd participant per company and seminar date.