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Inventory credit managed by COPSA-C in southwest Burkina Faso

Year of publication 2012

Pages 14 p.

Author Déla Sidi, F.;Hassane, S.;Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) COPSA-C’s mission is to increase the agricultural revenues of its members, so as to improve their economic and food security status. Inventory credit is one of the flagship techniques promoted by COPSA-C to support rural communities in ensuring good management and the best possible returns on their agricultural production, in a region marked by the scattered and isolated location of its cultivable wetlands. Inventory credit, also known as warrantage, is a system of rural credit that enables a pr oducers’ organization and/or its members to obtain a loan against collateral in the form of non-perishable agricultural produce (millet, sorghum, rice, maize, sesame, gumbo, groundnuts etc.) that is likely to increase in value.

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