Resources and Publications Publications
Opportunity AgFinance produces a number of informative publications throughout the year to keep donors, supporters, and staff informed about news and stories about our work.
The Makers Gallery: Hands Beyond the Harvest
This magazine celebrates the Hands Beyond the Harvest: the creativity, skill, and enterprise of smallholder farmers beyond the farm. These farmers are also bead makers, basket weavers, painters, wood carvers, jewelry makers, textile artists, shopkeepers, tailors, and entrepreneurs. These businesses can provide an important source of additional income for farming families. Diversifying their livelihoods can help families build savings to fall back on when crops fail, weather disrupts a harvest, or unexpected expenses arise.
Refugees in Agriculture
Refugees rebuilding their lives in Uganda are not defined by their displacement. Opportunity International's Refugee Finance program adapts AgFinance's established infrastructure, training systems, and financial tools to meet the needs of refugee farmers, giving them the means to build on existing skills, strengthen their livelihoods, and invest in future opportunities. In doing so, it supports refugee families as they work toward greater stability, resilience, and economic independence.
A Multi-Country Outcome Harvesting Analysis
This outcome survey provides evidence that the FSA training model is effectively driving sustainable behavioral change among smallholder farmers. Farmers are not only gaining knowledge but also applying it in ways that improve productivity, strengthen financial management, and enhance livelihoods.
What Happens When Smallholder Farmers Access Finance? | Diane's Story from Rwanda
Diane, a smallholder farmer and fruit vendor in rural Rwanda, shares how she built a stable livelihood for her family through farming, savings, and access to financial services.
FarmerAI: Farmers Get Agricultural Information Through AI
In 2025, Opportunity launched a chatbot/generative AI solution, Farmer AI, to give farmers and their advisors ready-access to reliable agricultural information, providing timely, accurate, and contextually appropriate answers to their agricultural questions. This KM Insight shares the four models for scale-up that Opportunity tested in Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, and Ghana—along with lessons learned and future plans.
AgFinance Climate and Resilience Strategy
Increasing climate disasters are eroding decades of development progress, with rural communities in low-income countries facing disproportionate impacts. This creates an urgent imperative for Opportunity to respond to clients’ rapidly evolving needs and safeguard hard-won gains in poverty reduction and financial inclusion. Opportunity is addressing this crisis head-on by ensuring rural clients can access the support and resources necessary to sustain and grow their enterprises amid mounting threats to their economic stability.
Digitizing Savings Group – Rose, a Smallholder Farmer in DRC
Digitizing Savings Group – Rose, a smallholder farmer in DRC. A video interview showing how a smartphone helped Rose and her community access financing and grow their farms.
A Documentary: Green Manure Cover Crops in Malawi
Explore how smallholder farmers and Opportunity International AgFinance are using cover crops to protect their farms in Malawi.
Strengthening Smallholder Farmers Through VSLA and Regenerative Agriculture
Smallholder farmers play a crucial role in rural economies, yet they face persistent barriers to financial inclusion, agricultural sustainability, and economic growth. The Parish Development Model is a strategic initiative designed to address these challenges by strengthening Village Savings and Loan Associations, improving financial literacy, and promoting regenerative agriculture.
