Agricultural Finance

Registration

The course is split up into 4 online interactive training sessions each 3.5 hours. For detailed content refer Course Outline.

Date : 15th – 18th February, 2021
Time : 13:00 – 16:30 CET

Price per participant : 1,100 EUR *

*Alumni discount is 10%
*Group discount is 10%

Target Group

This course is designed for people working or intending to work in the field of Agricultural Finance, either as employees in financial institutions or as advisors / consultants to financial institutions.

The course gives participants the opportunity to get an overview of current trends in the field of Agricultural Finance and to quickly absorb the core knowledge required to become an expert. Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of economics and finance.

Learning Target

After finishing the course the participants should have gained a deep and long lasting knowledge of the key principles and best practices applied in the field of Agricultural Finance, with a focus on smallholder farmers in developing countries.

The course content is very practice oriented with many exercises and case studies based on real life situations. Participants will benefit from this course throughout their entire professional career.

Participants can use the time between the sessions to digest the learned content. Exercises will be given as homework task after each session which helps the learners to review the content and test their comprehension of the discussed topics.

Methodology

Lecture, discussion, individual and group exercises, case studies and reading materials

Course Outline

Unit 1 – Introduction: basic knowledge of agriculture

History and principles of Agricultural Finance
Target groups of AF
Suppliers of AF services
Delivery models used in AF

Unit 2 – Financial Products and Services

Agricultural credit
Agricultural insurance
Warehouse receipt finance and other product innovations in the field of AF
Digital finance
Value chain finance

Unit 3 – Management of financial institutions

Governance
Risk management
Profitability management
Social performance management
Human resources management
Marketing

Unit 4 – Financial and Social Performance

Methods used to measure financial and social performance
Management practices to improve financial and social performance

Trainer

Helmut Grossmann

Helmut Grossmann has not only been working for Frankfurt School of Finance & Management for over 10 years as a Microfinance Specialist, he was also Acting Head of Frankfurt School’s International Advisory Services from 2004-2005.

He has worked in over 20 countries for Frankfurt School. Within his assignments he has been actively involved in giving trainings on the job as well as in classroom. From 2004 until 2013 he has been a lead trainer at one of Frankfurt School’s flagship training programmes for executives, the Summer Academies. He serves as senior consultant and trainer for various Competence Centres of Frankfurt School focussing on financial system development in microfinance as well as in rural finance and agriculture finance. More info..