The African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA) in collaboration with the ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and several other national, regional and international partners, will be hosting the international conference, “FIN4Ag: Revolutionising finance for agri-value chains”, from 14 to 18 July 2014, at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies (KSMS), in Nairobi, Kenya.
The event intends to bring together over 500 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 learned on how to contribute to a smallholder-inclusive agricultural value chains in finance in Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries and beyond.
The international conference is a premium opportunity for:
· financial institutions to learn about innovative financial tools and products;
· farmers organizations wanting to solve their members’ financial challenges and forge new partnerships/networks with banks, development agencies and researchers;
· the public sector (central banks, government agencies) seeking to discover how to develop and strengthen an enabling environment, that will unlock agricultural growth in their countries;
· ICTs developers willing to showcase their agri-finance innovations and build a strategic network; and
· development practitioners and the academia wishing to share their experiences, get acquainted with new developments and challenges, and strike new partnerships.
For more information, visit the conference website: http://fin4ag.org/