On March 17, MEDA INNOVATE will convene practitioners, funders, policymakers, and other thought leaders for a 1-day learning event exploring non-traditional finance to deliver sustainable and scalable agricultural innovations for smallholder farmers.

Participants will walk away from NTF4Ag: Emerging Lessons and New Frontiers with a deeper knowledge and understanding of non-traditional finance experiences for smallholder farmers around the world and new ideas for improving smallholder finance initiatives

Join us for a highly interactive full-day agenda featuring speaker panels, deep-dive research presentations from MEDA’s partners, and workshop-style peer learning sessions.

The event will focus on key thematic areas emanating from the INNOVATE portfolio and industry insights, including:

• Customer centricity
• Smallholder products and services
• Smallholder household norms
• Policy and ecosystems change

This learning event is free for all attendees. However, due to limited seating (60 spots), attendance is by application only. If you'd like to participate, please apply here to express interest. A member of the MEDA INNOVATE team will be in touch soon.

We read every expression of interest and encourage attendance by implementers, policymakers, donors, funders, financial service providers, and development practitioners with diverse backgrounds relating to smallholder agriculture and finance.

Register Now for #NTF4Ag

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.