Financing Smallholder Agriculture to Eliminate Hunger and Poverty: Supporting African Smallholder Farmers and Agri-Sector SMEs with Innovative Financing Structures

  • Date: 15 July 2015, 1:15pm - 2:45pm
  • Location: Hilton Ibex & Nyala

Organised by

International Fertilizer Industry Association
African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership
African Development Bank

Summary

The Finance for Development text acknowledges the importance of investment in agriculture in developing countries. Smallholder farmers are often unable to increase their productivity because they lack the financial resources to buy essential inputs such as seeds and fertilizers, as prices of these inputs are inflated by infrastructure constraints and obstacles such as the high cost of financing. Finance for Development also encourages more innovative financing by multilateral development banks to strengthen SMEs. The event highlights the African Fertilizer Financing Mechanism, established by the African Development Bank and others to provide finance to facilitate smallholder access to essential inputs.

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