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Inventory credit

Year of publication 2012

Pages 4p.

Author Office for Partnerships, Advocacy and Capacity Development

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In Sahel countries in general, and Niger in particular, agriculture is vulnerable to unfavourable climate conditions, resulting in low crop yields. Often, small-scale farmers are forced to sell off their agricultural products at low prices straight after harvest, to earn cash and pay off their debts or to meet their immediate needs (food, medical care, travel to cities, children’s education, etc.). During the lean season, the price of these same agricultural products rises. Farmers’ low incomes prevent them from buying inputs that would enable them to increase their yields and output. As a result, both men and women producers find themselves trapped in a vicious circle of spiralling poverty. It was against this backdrop that, in 1999, inventory credit was introduced in Niger, to offer solutions to the challenges of financing agricultural production and addressing the impoverishment of farmers, by making it easier for them to obtain credit in a rural setting.

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