Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.22-00062
A. Shee, A. Parmar, S. Raut, B. Strum, B. Bennett
{"title":"Assessing the measurement methods of post-harvest food loss and waste: opportunities and challenges","authors":"A. Shee, A. Parmar, S. Raut, B. Strum, B. Bennett","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.22-00062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.22-00062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128447079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.22-00061
A. Giménez, Florencia Alcaire, Agustina Vitola, M. R. Curutchet, G. Ares
{"title":"Exploring the economic and environmental effects of food waste in Uruguayan households","authors":"A. Giménez, Florencia Alcaire, Agustina Vitola, M. R. Curutchet, G. Ares","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.22-00061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.22-00061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115360513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.22-00073
Ravinder Kumar, D. Rees, Lorraine H C Fisher
{"title":"Preserving food without creating plastic pollution: A primer on progress in developed and low- to middle-income countries","authors":"Ravinder Kumar, D. Rees, Lorraine H C Fisher","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.22-00073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.22-00073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121070031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.22-00071
T. Stathers, R. Lamboll
{"title":"Exploring the complex relationships between food loss and waste, climate change, and the environment to support informed sustainable food system transformation decisions with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"T. Stathers, R. Lamboll","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.22-00071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.22-00071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131421009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.21-00050
Edward A., José Lopes
{"title":"Formal microsaving: A PRISMA-compliant systematic review of its exogenous determinants","authors":"Edward A., José Lopes","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.21-00050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.21-00050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121212922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.22-00002
A. Mkhitaryan
{"title":"Mission drift between the balance of social mission vs. financial performance of microfinance institutions","authors":"A. Mkhitaryan","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.22-00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.22-00002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"23 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122573456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.21-00020
Badr El
This paper is concerned with microfinance in Africa post Covid-19, a crisis from which the continent is still recovering while new crises such as climate change challenges emerge. The resilience of the microfinance sector to crises must not only address operational weaknesses revealed by the pandemic, but also exploit the post-crisis potential to build resilience in areas such as digitalization and smallholder agriculture. New rules and regulations should target microfinance providers (MFPs) and enable them to quickly comply with new rules and those normally in force. This paper calls for the inclusion of all forms of MFPs, allowing for customized applications of policies and regulations. Moreover, measures for regulators include re-defining post-COVID-19 target groups, enhancing liquidity and MFP risk-based management, ensuring sustainability and best practices, activating prompt monitoring of the sector, and ensuring a consultative and coordinated culture. Measures for MFPs include increased micro-saving, avoiding subsidies, unlocking the full potential of smallholder farmers, a strong movement towards inclusive digital finance, product development, and partial movement towards crises-resistant, non-interest types of lending in countries with Muslim minorities.
{"title":"Lessons for African microfinance providers and regulators in the aftermath of COVID-19","authors":"Badr El","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.21-00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.21-00020","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with microfinance in Africa post Covid-19, a crisis from which the continent is still recovering while new crises such as climate change challenges emerge. The resilience of the microfinance sector to crises must not only address operational weaknesses revealed by the pandemic, but also exploit the post-crisis potential to build resilience in areas such as digitalization and smallholder agriculture. New rules and regulations should target microfinance providers (MFPs) and enable them to quickly comply with new rules and those normally in force. This paper calls for the inclusion of all forms of MFPs, allowing for customized applications of policies and regulations. Moreover, measures for regulators include re-defining post-COVID-19 target groups, enhancing liquidity and MFP risk-based management, ensuring sustainability and best practices, activating prompt monitoring of the sector, and ensuring a consultative and coordinated culture. Measures for MFPs include increased micro-saving, avoiding subsidies, unlocking the full potential of smallholder farmers, a strong movement towards inclusive digital finance, product development, and partial movement towards crises-resistant, non-interest types of lending in countries with Muslim minorities.","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129448411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.2022.33-3.ed
Linda J. Jones
{"title":"Editorial: A ‘Just Transition’–a meaningful movement or rhetoric that has been co-opted for other purposes?","authors":"Linda J. Jones","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.2022.33-3.ed","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.2022.33-3.ed","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128709919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.21-00046
Uzoma Heman
{"title":"Social support and new venture initiation with resilience as a mediating factor","authors":"Uzoma Heman","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.21-00046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.21-00046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134050340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.3362/1755-1986.21-00038
Mary Pat McVay, Genzo Yamamoto, T. Strong, Ephantus Ndoka, Luke Coulson, Lydia Baffour Awuah
A high-tech, high-touch, high-impact (H3) approach to agricultural finance enables expansion of financial service markets to people facing poverty, gender, and age barriers to economic empowerment. This article explains the H3 approach and presents the case of Opportunity International’s Agricultural Finance Programme (AgFinance) in Africa. At the centre of the model are community-based farm advisors, providing high-touch/high-tech training in financial management, good agricultural practices, inclusion, and resilience. They also link farmers to financial service providers, input and equipment suppliers, and markets. In Malawi, where Opportunity has applied this model, outreach was high: 72 per cent of clients were living in extreme poverty, 57 per cent were women and 40 per cent youth. In 2021, the AgFinance programme facilitated loans to 68,262 borrowers with an outstanding balance of US$24.82 m. This outreach and scale demonstrates a market systems model – the H3 approach – with deep outreach at scale.
{"title":"Agricultural finance that reaches people facing poverty, gender, and age barriers","authors":"Mary Pat McVay, Genzo Yamamoto, T. Strong, Ephantus Ndoka, Luke Coulson, Lydia Baffour Awuah","doi":"10.3362/1755-1986.21-00038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3362/1755-1986.21-00038","url":null,"abstract":"A high-tech, high-touch, high-impact (H3) approach to agricultural finance enables expansion of financial service markets to people facing poverty, gender, and age barriers to economic empowerment. This article explains the H3 approach and presents the case of Opportunity International’s Agricultural Finance Programme (AgFinance) in Africa. At the centre of the model are community-based farm advisors, providing high-touch/high-tech training in financial management, good agricultural practices, inclusion, and resilience. They also link farmers to financial service providers, input and equipment suppliers, and markets. In Malawi, where Opportunity has applied this model, outreach was high: 72 per cent of clients were living in extreme poverty, 57 per cent were women and 40 per cent youth. In 2021, the AgFinance programme facilitated loans to 68,262 borrowers with an outstanding balance of US$24.82 m. This outreach and scale demonstrates a market systems model – the H3 approach – with deep outreach at scale.","PeriodicalId":308609,"journal":{"name":"Enterprise Development & Microfinance","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122100217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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