Nairobi-Kenya: At the Kenya School of Monetary Studies nearly 1,000 people are gathering for one week long conference to discuss how small scale farmers get easily access to agriculture finance and other related technical support. This follow a similar conference branded ICT4Ag which took place in Kigali in Novembre 2013.
The fin4Ag is a unique in that it is designed to catalyze new thinking and broader adoption of best practices in the area of agricultural value chain finance. This conference has gathered bring together nearly 1,000 private and public sector representatives, African Banks and financiers, regional and national farmers’ organisations, agri-value chain stakeholders, government officials, development practitioners and academics to share experiences and lessons on how to promote smallholder-inclusive agricultural value chain finance in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and beyond.
All the stakeholder groups involved in such finance have come together to explore new tools, mechanisms and approaches that have been tried and tested in an isolated manner over the past few years – with the idea that if the best of these experiences are replicated by value chain partners, financiers and governments, then the result will be a revolution in agricultural value chain finance – and ultimately, a situation where, if there are profitable opportunities for farmers and other value chain finance actors, a lack of access to finance does not prevent them from capitalising on these opportunities.
Visit the official web site for fin4ag: http://fin4ag.org/