Event Information

There’s no need to leave home to join a digital community of experts exploring the use of non-traditional finance to deliver sustainable and scalable agricultural innovations for smallholder farmers. As many events worldwide shift to digital formats, MEDA INNOVATE invites you to participate in a virtual learning event, NTF4Ag Online – Emerging Lessons and New Frontiers, where we’ll share results and insights from a global research portfolio.

NTF4Ag will comprise of two virtual conversations held on March 25 and March 26, 2020 to accommodate participants from various time zones.

1. Opening + Setting the Stage
2. Research Lightning Talks delivered by MEDA INNOVATE partners
3. Fireside Chat: Ag Finance Experts Respond to Emerging Lessons and New Frontiers of NTF
4. Q&A Closing + What’s Next?

Learn more: www.meda.org/innovate/events/ntf4ag

Register for Day 1 Session: March 25, 2020

3 PM – 4:30 PM EDT

(Convert Time Zone)

Register for Day 2 Session: March 26, 2020

7 AM – 8:30 AM EDT

(Convert Time Zone)

Research Lightning Talks delivered by:

• Anne-Cécile Delwaide – Consultant, Agronomy Technology Limited (ATL)
• Luke Colavito – Economist, iDE
• Mauricio Moscoso – Head of Risk, CIDRE IFD
• Rhona Murungi – Program Officer, World Relief
• Kallisse Dent – Researcher, World Relief
• Rocio Perez Ochoa – Co-founder/Director, Bidhaa Sasa

Fireside Chat with Dan Zook, Executive Director, ISF Advisors, facilitated by Ben Fowler, Principal, MarketShare Associates (MSA)

Research Lightning Talks delivered by:

• Vyone Ming'ate – Program Manager, Dodore Kenya Limited
• Maruf Azam – Coordinator, Krishi Utsho, CARE Bangladesh
• Patricia Chin-Sweeney – Managing Director, I-DEV International

Fireside Chat with:

• John Amimo – Programme Coordinator, African Rural and Agricultural  Credit Association (AFRACA)
• Calvin Miller – Agricultural Finance Expert
• Carolina Trivelli – Senior Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP)

About INNOVATE

This event is presented by INNOVATE (Adoption of Agricultural Innovations through Non-Traditional Financial Services), a 3-year initiative implemented by MEDA and funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) assessing the potential of non-traditional finance to enable large scale adoption of agricultural innovations among women and men smallholder farmers in South Asia, South America and East Africa. Learn more: www.meda.org/innovate

About MEDA     

Since 1953, MEDA has been implementing effective market-driven programs globally. MEDA combines innovative private sector solutions with a commitment to the advancement and empowerment of excluded, low-income and disadvantaged communities (including women and youth) with core expertise in market systems, financial services, and investment. MEDA partners with local private, public and civil society actors, strengthening individuals, institutions, communities and ecosystems, and thereby contributing to sustainable and inclusive systemic change.