Nigeria: AfDB, Dutch Growth Fund Raise $66m for Nigeria's Agric Finance

22 June 2017

Abuja — The African Development Bank (AfDB), CDC Group (managing DFID Impact Fund) and the Dutch Good Growth Fund (managed by Triple Jump) have joined existing co-sponsors of the Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN) to drive agricultural transformation in Nigeria.

The firms boosted the federal government's initiative of a vibrant private sector-led agricultural financing by funding FAFIN to the tune of $65.9 million.

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