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Digital Finance and Women’s Economic Empowerment

Digital financial services have the potential to promote women’s economic empowerment in agriculture and food systems. To better understand the outcomes of women’s increased access to digital finance, the lending policies, practices and regulations that are necessary to extend digital finance to women, and the enabling environment necessary for women’s increased economic empowerment, the  Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program  conducted a desk review and a series of consultations with donors, implementers and digital financial service providers. The analysis explored three questions: What digital financial tools and services have been or could be used in agriculture and food systems contexts to economically empower women, especially in beyond-production activities? What are the limiting and enabling factors for women’s access to and use of digital financial tools and services? Where present during data collection, what are the lesso