This is the FAO website for Rural Finance, and is useful as a reference for FAO links and services related to rural finance in developing countries and contains a learning center. The site includes the categories of agricultural finance, which is dedicated to financing agricultural related activities such as input supply, production, distribution, wholesale, processing and marketing, and microfinance which provides financial services for poor and low income people by offering smaller loans and savings services, while accepting a wider variety of assets as collateral.