This week was the kick-off of the Smart Agriculture Myanmar (SAM) project in Myanmar. The FACS team joined Satelligence, Impact Terra, Wageningen University and CESD for a week of team-building and project planning in Yangon, Myanmar.

Financial Access, together with SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, has undertaken a profound research on past and current policies and financing schemes for oil palm smallholders in Indonesia and Malaysia and prepared a research paper and an info brief which have been published by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) this month.