CEDIAM: a fruit processor sees its future in banking

This article provides an overview of how climate change may frame smallholder mango farmers’ approach to irrigation technology selection in Mali and argues that leading mango off-takers such as CEDIAM, a privately-held fruit processing company, have an incentive to provide irrigation infrastructure financing to smallholder farmers in a context of limited farmer access to bank financing and increasing off taker competition for farmers’ production. However, off takers are likely benchmark the expected yield improvements from irrigation against the benefits of investing in their own cold chains to reduce fruit losses across the supply chain.