Occasional Paper 11, “Managing Risks and Designing Products for Agricultural Microfinance“ issued on August 2005 by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), is re-issued here as part of a series of publications to update IFAD’s Rural Finance Decision Tools. Occasional Paper 11 results from a research project funded by IFAD on emerging lessons in agricultural microfinance. Based on desk reviews, site visits and stakeholder consultations, CGAP identified institutions actively engaged in agricultural finance that showed the potential to achieve scale and sustainability. This paper reviews cross-cutting features that characterize successful agricultural microfinance portfolios.