Are you an agri-tech startup in Africa? Is access to finance still a challenge and would you like to scale up your start up to the next level? Our partner Small Foundation and Founders Factory Africa (FFA) are looking for innovative African AgriTech startups to transform business models and improve delivery of a range of services to smallholder farmers...
The Government of Kenya is implementing its Warehouse Receipt System, a move applauded by different stakeholders as a solution to address some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers as a result of unstructured markets and gaps along the value chain which reduce farmers’ income. The Warehouse Receipt System is a process whereby producers or dealers deposit their commodities in...
AfDB Call for Proposals: Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship Enablers for Stronger Women SMEs in Africa
Deadline: 30th May 2021 The African Development Bank (AfDB) under its flagship project, Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) aims to bridge $42 billion financing gap for women entrepreneurs in Africa by leveraging on the Bank’s financial instruments through the AFAWA Guarantee for Growth, an innovative mechanism derisking women entrepreneurs and enhancing Financial Institutions’ appetite in lending to Women...
AFRACA Secretary General, Mr. Thomas Essel welcomed Mr. George Kubai who was recently appointed as the Managing Director, Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC). The meeting aimed to explore areas of synergies and strengthen the cordial working relationship between the two institutions which spans over two decades. AFC expressed interest to work with AFRACA in the implementation of its new project “Financing Innovation...
The African Rural and Agricultural Association (AFRACA) with funding support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) through its Multidisciplinary Fund (MDF) is currently implementing a ten-month project on “Financing Innovation for Sustainable Fisheries with the Private Sector” which aims to support fishing businesses in Kenya access formal micro-finance and credit resources enabling them to innovate...
Are you a smallholder farmer, farmers’ leader or an aggregator? NIRSAL PLC is calling on all smallholder farmers, farmer leaders and aggregators particularly for dry season and non-seasonal commodities to take advantage of the NIRSAL AgroGeoCoop® formation exercise which is currently structuring smallholder farmers for access to finance, trainings, markets and more. Apply today to be part of the 16,000 Agro Geo-Cooperatives...
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