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Financing Agriculture in Developing Countries: Governance Models Promoting Sustainability

In: Finance for a Better World

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  • Solène Morvant-Roux

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Seventy-five percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas where their survival depends mainly on agriculture that is exposed to the risks of climate, changes in the market and is characterized by relatively weak profitability (World Bank 2007b). To develop their productive activities, agricultural households face numerous constraints including access to finance. Most of the farmers in developing countries are actually excluded from the banking systems. The number of people in Africa or South Asia working in agriculture and possessing bank accounts does not exceed 5 or 6 percent, whereas in the developed countries, agriculture banks early on played a major role in modernizing agriculture and incorporating farmers into the banking system.

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  • Solène Morvant-Roux, 2009. "Financing Agriculture in Developing Countries: Governance Models Promoting Sustainability," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Henri-Claude Bettignies & François Lépineux (ed.), Finance for a Better World, chapter 10, pages 189-203, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23575-5_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230235755_10
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