Windhoek — CTA hosted a conference on the promotion of inclusive finance models for farmers in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, from July 13 to 17. The conference consisted of two parts. The first part was the Second African Continental Briefing that addressed the rural finance gap through agricultural value chain finance. It brought together representatives from African farmers associations and finance institutions involved in financing agricultural value chains.
The second part was the main conference with the theme "Revolutionising finance for agri value chains". It was attended by more than 700 delegates from the ACP countries including national and regional farmers associations, agri value chain stakeholders, commercial banks, central banks, credit associations, commodity exchanges, ICTs, governments and the African Union Commission. Wallie Roux from the NAU attended the conference. His attendance was made possible by CTA.
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