Guarantee funds – a response to agricultural credit risk. The Latin America Guarantee Fund
2015
High risk levels is often the justification given for the small sums available for agriculture credit in the global South. Setting up a guarantee fund is one of the ways of managing and sharing these risks between the different stakeholders as well as facilitating greater involvement of financial institutions in the rural sphere. With this in mind, SOS Faim created a guarantee fund for the Andean countries in close collaboration with local producer and microfinance organizations.
Countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia (Plurinational State of Bolivia), Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States of America, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)
Commodities: Non-Commodity specific
Topics: Risk management (Cross-sectional)
Authoring organization: SOS Faim Belgium
Publisher: SOS Faim Belgium
Type: Case study
Format: Document
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