Smallholder Impact Literature Wiki- Home
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Welcome to the Smallholder Impact Literature Wiki, brought to you by The Initiative for Smallholder Finance.
The intention of this wiki is to serve as a living resource for the smallholder community to capture, organize, and easily access the growing body of literature about smallholder interventions. Users are welcome to add new resources, edit current takeaways, and provide additional knowledge. The wiki uses standard wiki markup language. A short intro is at Help:Cheatsheet. To learn how to see this markup and to save an edit, see: Help:Editing.
Literature is organized into 15 assumptions implied in the Universal Theory of Change. These assumptions are then further broken into component parts, with specific studies, literature, and cases noted for each part. While we've worked to evaluate the amount of literature that exists pertaining to each of the 15 base assumptions, actual takeaways and findings are only noted at a deeper level. To begin exploring the literature, click on one of the assumptions in the table below.
Universal Theory of Change
As part of the development of this Wiki, The Initiative for Smallholder Finance interviewed a large group of stakeholders in the smallholder agricultural finance community and developed the following universal theory of change. The 15 assumptions above relate to the expectations of investors, agribusinesses, technical assistance providers, certification bodies, and other actors who embrace a theory of change similar to this one.