In 2012, a fourth team of students analyzed a pilot program involving poultry micro-enterprises. Students consulted agricultural micro-finance banks and micro-enterprise support programs, compared lending models, spoke with SHIP collaborators, interviewed past and prospective SHIP participants in their homes, and visited hatcheries, commercial producers, input suppliers, and vendors to better understand the local market, poultry value chain, and best practices in micro-lending. They revised SHIP’s participant screening questionnaire, produced comparative case studies of poultry and agricultural micro-finance programs, and developed comprehensive recommendations for restructuring the program to increase profitability.
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