Since SCOPEinsight was founded in 2010, they have led the way in developing innovative, universally-applicable assessment tools that measure the level of farmer professionalism in emerging markets. SCOPEinsight believe that farmer professionalism is the key to structural transformation of the agricultural sector. By providing business intelligence they aim to increase transparency in the agricultural market, lower investment risks and increase business opportunities for stakeholders in and around the agricultural value chain.

It is their mission to transform agricultural sectors by increasing the market inclusiveness of professional small and medium-sized agricultural businesses and farmer organizations.

The SCOPE tools create a common language between stakeholders and can be used across any region, sector, crop and farmer segments.

The clients include global agri-businesses, traders, processors, NGO’s, financial institutions as well as multilateral development- and food security organizations.

SCOPEinsight provides you with the actionable insights you need to make better informed investment decisions and target the interventions for farmer organizations.

Assessor Training and Assessments
The innovative Assessment Tools provide you insights into the level of professionalism of farmer organizations. The assessments need to be conducted by certified SCOPE assessors. They train the staff or local partners to become SCOPE Assessors, so you can incorporate the assessments in own activities.

Business Intelligence
Analysis of assessment data helps to improve the effectiveness of the service delivery to farmer organizations, increasing impact with the same resources. This data enables you to segment farmer organizations, increasing the success rate. Additionally, this information helps to reduce the information risks ands financing costs, thus presenting new market opportunities. The Business Intelligence services include the SCOPE Portal and a Curriculum Gap Analysis.

 

 

Why They Do It
To increase food security, farming in emerging economies should be about productive, efficient and well-managed businesses. The more professional agricultural businesses are, the better they are able to provide sufficient, good-quality food in a sustainable way.

Targeted investments in terms of training, inputs, loans, and other forms of support, make farmer organizations more professional. But SCOPEinsight knows that providers of these services have a number of questions before investing in agriculture:

• How do you judge just how professional farmer organizations are, individually and compared to others?
• What can you do to increase the level of professionalism of farmer organizations?
• How can you understand the investment needs of farmer organizations?
• How do you know which farmer organizations meet the current investment standards?

That’s where They come in.

How the Services Can Help You

SCOPEinsight reduce investment costs and risks

They can help you to focus on investments in farmer organizations and create impact and returns in more efficient and effective ways. Using these solutions, client's will be able to:

• Segment farmer organizations based on their business performance and professionalism
• Build a pipeline of professional farmer organizations
• Make better informed investment decisions on the input, finance and (training) services needed per farmer organization, lowering operational costs and risks
• Offer services that help you increase the quality of value chain or portfolio
• Monitor the impact of investments within value chain or portfolio
• Compare performance scores of farmer organizations within value chain or portfolio and across the industry
• Empower farmer organizations to meet market expectations and connect them to the right business partners.

Ultimately, this improves the quality of produce, increases the productivity of farmers and inspires and educates a new generation of farmers. It enables farmers to grow their businesses and contributes to a thriving economic sector.