Discover the stories and the expertise behind professionalizing agribusinesses.
Read how this local expert created an investment platform to link the SMEs they strengthen with necessary finance and how SCOPEinsight is helping investors understand the credit worthiness of the SMEs
Find out how the newly developed Bankability Metrics removes a huge barrier for agri-SMEs to access finance
How can data and innovative technical assistance improve access to finance? Read here for more
Read how this program used a data-led approach to massively improve the incomes and resilience of poor farmers and small-scale rural entrepreneurs in Ghana
Read how Nuru successfully graduates struggling smallholder farmers to thriving cooperative groups.
This Ivoirian BDS provider is our newest local expert. Read about how they have helped agribusinesses with access to finance and their plans for the future
Women in agriculture play a vital role, yet they have been excluded from accessing finance. Helping female farmers access to finance can be made easier, but how? Barriers such as having no bank account and land can be overcome if lenders would use a common language to evaluate loan applications. Read more to find out about how bankability metrics can help close this gap.
Summary of the March 4 webinar with AGRA, CFI, and SCOPEinsight Nearly 400 development practitioners from members of agri-SMEs themselves to financial institutions, social lenders, capacity builders, and donors – attended a webinar to find out what is the secretContinue Reading
Read how this partnership will help sustainably spread high-quality, data-led BDS services throughout Africa
How can we tap into the potential that agriculture holds in emerging markets? How can we use data to optimize agricultural value chains and mitigate risks? Read for more.
Are you interested in helping processors and agribusinesses become more resilient to market changes? Read more here.
Read how our partnership plans with a local expert consultancy company in Nigeria will help agribusiness access to finance in the country
Market-responsive initiatives: For local BDS providers to be able to deliver data driven solutions, it is important to strengthen market system. In order to enable this market-based service delivery, SCOPEinsight and AGRA launched the Local Expert Network initiative in five countries.
One of SCOPEinsight's main aims is to create a bridge that links agri-SMEs to capital providers. Earlier this year, SCOPEinsight and the CFI, with funding from AGRA, started the process to build this bridge. Read more to learn about the key findings of this initiative.
Building Excellent Ecosystems: The IFC and SCOPEinsight shared a vision that was rooted in the strong belief that agribusinesses are the prime actors in the struggle against rural poverty, can stimulate economic growth, and strengthen food security in LMICs low and middle-income countries.
COVID-19 responsive programs: The global pandemic has significantly impacted the agricultural sector in emerging economies. But how has SCOPEinsight ensured food security and farmer livelihoods during this global outbreak? Read on to find out the results of the 32 remote assessments SCOPEinsight conducted in Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, and Kenya.
Together with our clients such as Cargill, the IFC, ICCO Cooperation, and many others, the team at SCOPEinsight has focused on continually improving the customer experience to ensure the best journey for our users. Read on to know more about how the client journey looks like.
The bankability metrics offered together by MIX and SCOPEinsight eliminate risk and provide better access in lending to the agricultural sector for capital providers. Read more to find out who we have as partners for this project.
Crisis such as COVID-19, locust plagues, and other disruptions highlight the need to manage risks in the agricultural supply chain more effectively. From input suppliers to producers to logistics, there are hidden risks along this continuum. Read more about how we address these risks.
SCOPEinsight has built solutions in a market-driven way and has also advocated using data for accountability, transparency, and results. Read on to find out about the ways in which the communities benefit from the project after-life.
Crisis such as COVID-19 really uncovers the need for decision-makers to have reliable data in a timely manner - and in a way that allows for quick decision making. Read more about how we help decision makers with our data.
The progress made with digitalising agriculture in Africa over the years can be used as a strong foundation for new initiatives to alleviate the COVID-19’s impact on food security.
SCOPEinsight launched the Local Expert Network (LEN) with experts from around the world. The Local Expert Network offers the standardized, evidence-based SCOPE products and services in combination with local expert knowledge provided by local entrepreneurs. Continue reading to learn more about what the LEN delivers.
In Mali agricultural value chains are characterized by informality and fragmentation. And producers are overly reliant on intermediary actors to bridge gaps to create market access. Further compounding this problem is the access to finance.
he lessons learned from this project can serve as a roadmap for practitioners who wish to link producer organizations with market players like Subway.
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Sourcing fresh food from smallholder farmers can be a challenge. The market for connecting companies to smallholders in emerging markets is broken...
SCOPEinsight, MIX and AGRA are in a partnership to create the necessary market transparency to unlock financing for agri-SMEs in emerging markets.
SCOPEinsight worked with co-developers Bayer, CNFA, and the IFC to provide a solution for agro-input retailers to become stronger business partners and provide better services to farmers.
Access to finance is difficult for agri-SMEs. And financing agri-SMEs is difficult for financial institutions. For both sides there is a loss.
Five years ago, after so many assessments, we began to have a huge volume of data. At the time, we used excel to save the assessment data. However, we knew that we had to modernize; it was imperative to haveContinue Reading
One Client’s Stunning Results How can you continue to grow your business without breaking your budget? That was the challenge facing Africa Turnaround Limited (ATL), a Kenyan-based consulting firm that has been strengthening agribusinesses for the past 11 years toContinue Reading
To scale up SCOPE assessments, we rely on SCOPE Assessor Trainers who are from the community and are connected to and knowledgeable of the countries where the assessment is taking place. These Assessor trainees work with PHB Development, a specializedContinue Reading
At SCOPEinsight, the quality of data we give you is important to us. The quality of data we provide is characterized by the following four MAIN elements: 1. Accuracy, 2. Completeness, 3. Validity, and 4. Consistency.
Washington, D.C., December 3, 2019 In a “by-invitation-only” launch, AMEA members unveiled the Last Mile Retailer, a new product aimed professionalizing agro-input retailers using a standardized system to measure and train retailers. Hosted by AMEA, the launch was co-organized byContinue Reading
Blog by Juliet Macdowell (reposted from Agrilinks and Medium) At the turn of the 21st century, the development sector realized that alignment and partnership are paramount to achieving a shared vision of a prospering world. Therefore, following the Millennium DevelopmentContinue Reading
Antonie Fountain’s – Managing Director of the VOICE Network – keynote speech set the pace for the Only Way is Up Conference. In his impassioned talk, he called the participants to action by emphatically stating “it takes all of usContinue Reading
Focusing on farmer professionalism can lead to a plethora of positive development outcomes; its highly likely that these are the same outcomes your donor is interested in. The added benefit, however, to focusing on professionalism is that in time, youve successfully moved the needle from aid to self sufficiency for your target group.
Mistakes are fantastic opportunities for us to learn. So, we reviewed our quality control and feedback files (yes, we keep anonymous records of what works, what doesn’t and what needs to be improved). We asked our colleagues and partners about are the most re-occurring mistakes on agri-development projects. Below is the list of the top four mistakes encountered on projects.
Data is most useful when its actionable; but how to do this? Here are five strategies our biggest (and most successful) clients use to make data actionable
Cooperatives can be an effective tool in supporting smallholders to access markets and achieve a living income. How can farmer organizations best provide viable trade and high-quality services for their members? What tools can supply chain partners use to supportContinue Reading
In this webinar we will talk with Bayer to find out how they reach the last mile in the agricultural sector.
Recently, SCOPEinsight discussed about the problems that input retailers face. But what are the solutions to these problems? Continue reading.
Globally, agricultural input retailers supply farmers with products and services needed to grow their crops and business. The products can include seeds, feed, nutrients, pesticides, equipment, and technology. Often, they provide farmers with consultative services such as crop input information,Continue Reading
maybe everything… Earth Day 2019 is here, and it gives us an opportunity to reflect on our commitment to the environment and is a call to action to support our most precious resource. The agricultural sector is often singled outContinue Reading
At SCOPEinsight, client feedback is essential as it helps us optimize our tools and the way our clients experience them. Recently, we took three years of user experiences plus a thorough internal and external review to develop an improved versionContinue Reading
Read to the end of this blog post to find out how you can get the most out of your investments and/or capacity-building efforts in the agricultural sector in emerging markets. Never has the agricultural industry been under such enormousContinue Reading
Our approach to farmer professionalism is evidence based, why shouldn’t our workplace policies be the same? Many mission driven companies lose sight of their mission when it comes to their employees. Research has shown that while women comprise over 75%Continue Reading
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