Case Study
Enabling Smallholder Lending-Nordic Microfinance Inititative
Approach Satellite imagery analytics for: Land Use Land Classification (LULC) to distinguish agricultural & forest land. (Identifies forest, barren, farmland, water and urban areas) Credit scoring based on judgmental assessment and/or statistical analysis of many customers’ historical loan performance and national credit data Assign farmer scores based on plots’ historical performance, current crop health, estimated yield and other ground data collected on CropIn’s platform & external data Success Stories Enabling Smallholder Lending Palm oil farming Indonesia Up to 25000, up to 30 MFIs Objective Control of unacceptable farming practices. Enable Traceability/ sustainability for buyers of agriculture products.