Are you an innovator or a food company that develops digital/technology-based solutions for the food industry to trace food products, monitor processes, and improve data analysis in farming, logistics, manufacturing and processing, retail, or hotels and restaurants? The international Finance Corporation is looking for you. Submit your ideas today at https://lnkd.in/db6YUcz. Deadline: 23 April 2021 ...
DEADLINE: 17th May 2021 The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is currently receiving applications from registered African agricultural cooperatives, producer groups, processors and enterprises for grant financing. USADF is accepting applications from the following value chains in different countries: Benin: banana, cashew, maize, rice, shea, soy Burkina Faso: cashew, honey/beeswax, maize, onions, rice, shea butter, tomatoes Burundi: coffee, palm oil, potato, rice CĂŽte dâIvoire: cashew, cassava, cocoa, rice Democratic...
Self Help Africa is currently managing the AgriFI Challenge Fund on behalf of the EU. This is an âŹ18M fund to support agricultural businesses to increase their sourcing capacity through working with smallholder farmers. The organization is looking for a dynamic proactive and result oriented individual to head the AgriFI- Value Chain Implementation Team and provide strategic leadership technical oversight and...
By Tilda Nabbanja, Team Leader Financial Literacy, Bank of Uganda, and Mariam Zahari, Policy Specialist, AFI Bank of Uganda (BOU) has long considered financial literacy a crucial component for enhancing financial inclusion, requiring attention both on a national scale and for targeted vulnerable groups, including Ugandaâs sizeable refugee population. With 1.4 million refugees and asylum seekers living within its borders, Uganda is...
The core of agricultural production is usually in rural areas where there is availability of land for farming. Rural women are highly engaged in agriculture and play critical roles across good systems unfortunately they continue to be disproportionately poor and financially underserved with only few financial service providers responding to their specific needs. How can rural women be supported to increase...
The Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) in its Programme, Women Affirmative Access Window which promotes financial inclusion in agrifinance will in the next nine months extend Ksh. 1 billion loan to women agripreneurs in Kenya. Women will not be required to provide collaterals as a guarantee to get funding which is usually a big hindrance to access funding especially from financial institutions....
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