"AFRICA VALUE CHAIN FINANCING"
Africa Value Chain Finance Conference       October 16-18, 2007        Nairobi, KENYA        DAY 1: 16TH OCT      Opening Session; Vice President (Republic of Kenya)   &   » AFRACA Secretary General      Value Chain and Financing Models,        INNOVATIONS (TradeNet, DrumNets, Insurance Innovations, Safaricom - M-Pesa),          DAY 2: 17TH OCT         Role of Financial Institutions In Value Chain Financing,       Commodities Exchange And Risk Mitigation,        Success stories and what can be replicated (BASIX - INDIA, ADB - GHANA, CNCA),         Agribusiness session: Addressing quality, safety and capacity issues,         Policy and Agribanking session: Addressing policy issues (Equity Bank, Central Bank of Mozambique)         DAY 3: 18TH OCT           Effective Ways of Reaching Small Farmers / Low income people           Investor Dialogue – Experience and Trends        » Private investment – Agribusiness firms   » African Dev. Bank or IFC   » Private Bank – Standard Chartered   » IFAD   » SIDA   » UNCTAD/UNCDF   » USAID.   » CARE.                         Field Visit:    Sasini Tea (Tea growing & Processing),    Diary         BREAK OUT REPORTING,           Official Closing remarks.             DAY 4: 19TH OCT  4            Departure of Delegates  

Welcome

Today's managers will have to brace for tomorrow challenges, today. As the influence and power of the corporate sector grows, companies are faced with greater demands towards responsibility. The evolution of development thinking has appropriately placed the Private sector at the centre of economic growth, a critical facet for overall progress and prosperity. we believe that business prosperity can translate into properity for the broader society.

Finance institutions and their clients are affected by the increasing role of private sector agribusinesses. New opportunities of partnering, new opportunities and threats to traditional agricultural activities, and increased importance of understanding and linking with agricultural value chains as examples of the consequences that managers, bankers and producers must address. What can we learn from leaders in this field?

Welcome to the Africa Value Chain Conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

Conference Overview

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO) and the African Rural and Credit Association (AFRACA) network are pleased to announce an upcoming conference on the use of the value chain to reduce and increase access to financial services for agriculture and agribusiness. The African Value Chain Financing conference to be held in Nairobi, Kenya on October 16-18.
The conference will be hosted by AFRACA at The Red Court Hotel, opposite Belle vue off Mombasa road . What will it be! This is a great time to learn from the best, share experiences and prepare for the coming challenges, today! Our efforts focus on improving accessibility of financial services by the rural farrmers through effective service delivery mechanisms.

Conference Theme

The theme of this Forum is Africa Value Chain Financing.

The main objective of the Forum is, “to enhance awareness on successful models and approaches for using the resources and linkages of the value chain to increase financial service provision and efficiency to rural producers, traders and agribusinesses”! Read more...

Conference Organizers

Lead Sponsors 2007 Forum

Contributing Sponsors

Maize Seeds

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Is the association you are a member not listed as one of our group members? Your organisation is at its best when creating opprotunities for farmers to grow and find each other economically. Then let your local authorities office know about it! If they sign-up, we will give you a reward for the referral! If you don't know which credit associations we are looking for, just head to the news section.

 

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