Yedent Agro is a group of companies that processes fortified cereal blends in Ghana. Before 2016, Yedent was selling their product through procurement contracts to the Ministry …

In 2015, Malian maize trading company SONAF sourced 80% of its yellow maize from neighboring Côte d’Ivoire. The company sought to replace imports with locally sourced maize f…

Vegetable farmers in Benin find it hard to obtain bank loans to purchase seeds and fertilizers or to finance farm operations. If they do find a lender, interest rates can be as …

In October 2018, the Netherlands- based Rabobank Foundation has announced a $260,000 loan to the Tsehay farmer union in Gondar, northern Ethiopia, facilitated by the 2SCALE prog…

Small-scale farmers can be their own "donor". This is what I have learned while working with vegetable farmers in Ségou, Mali. 2SCALE’s target was to sustainably increase the…

A partnership between Nestle and 2SCALE is helping to transform the sorghum value chain in northern Nigeria. Nestle uses locally grown white sorghum as an ingredient in Milo, a …

Credit requires trust – but a survey by the World Bank reveals that only a quarter of Nigerian smallholder farmers “fully trust” banks. They have even lower levels of tru…

Aderonke Aderinoye (second from right) worked for 5 years in one of Nigeria’s top banks, before she made an unusual choice. She quit her job to go into farming, and then found…