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- Propcom Mai-karfi
Lack of access to credit, agricultural inputs, extension services and good storage facilities is holding back the potential of farmers in northern Nigeria.
Propcom's innovative finance scheme - Raise Out of Poverty (ROPO) bonds for innovative financing - has enabled an agricultural franchise and a commodity exchange to expand their operations in northern Nigeria, both to their own benefit and that of tens of thousands of smallholder farmers.
About Propcom Mai-karfi
Promoting Pro-poor Opportunities in Commodities and Service Markets (Propcom) Mai-karfi began in 2012, supported by DFID. It aimed at increasing the incomes of 650,000 poor men and women in Northern Nigeria.