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Leasing: An Option to Traditional Investment Lending
This presentation was delivered by Ramesh Iyer at the AgriFin Financing Agriculture Forum 2013. This presentation focuses on the leasing operations of Mahindra & Mahindra. Mr Iyer walked us through ex...
Private Sector Agribusiness Investment in Sub-Saharan Africa
After years of neglect, agricultural development is now an agenda item in many international forums such as the recent 2009 G8 Summit held in L’Aquila, Italy, in July 2009. This awakening has in part ...
Financing Equipment for Farmers and Agricultural SMEs
This presentation was delivered by Arvind Sonmale from SAFL at the AgriFin Financing Agriculture Forum 2013. Mr. Sonmale represents an agricultural finance company that made its start in financing irr...
AGRIFIN Technical Summary: Empirical Analysis of Agricultura...
The following is a summary of Salami, A. & Arawomo, D. F. (2013). Empirical Analysis of Agricultural Credit in Africa: Any Role for Institutional Factors? (Working Paper Series N° 192 African Developm...
Digital Financial Services in Africa: Beyond the Kenyan Succ...
The study explains the success of DFS in Kenya and presents challenges and opportunities for the development of DFS in the seven other countries where the study took place: Benin, Cameroon, Mozambique...
Financing Farmers Through Credit Cards
This presentation was delivered by Ömer Demirhan, manager of agricultural marketing department at Yapi Kredi Bank in Turkey at a webinar hosted by AgriFin on April 29, 2014. Mr. Demirhan discussed the...
Financing Coffee Growers: Lessons from the Honduras
This presentation was delivered by Antonio Abufele Colleo, Business Vice President at Banco Continental in Honduras at a webinar hosted by AgriFin on May 28, 2014. Mr. Antonio discussed the banks' mot...
Mobile Financial Services for the Un-banked
The report articulates the fact that the mobile money industry continues to grow and is now expanding across more regions. So does the competition of mobile payment as it is becoming a mainstream prod...
Financing Dairy Value Chain in Kenya
This presentation was delivered by George Macharia, Head of Agriculture Credit at Equity Bank in Kenya at a webinar hosted by AgriFin on December 17, 2013. Mr. Macharia discussed the Equity Bank's exp...
Building Capacity in Agricultural Banking
This presentation was given during a webinar on November 20, 2013 by John Blanchfield, Senior Vice President and Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Banking of the American Bankers Assoc...
Financing Agricultural Value Chains
This presentation was given by Lois Sankey, Head of Agrifinance at Diamond Bank, Nigeria during an AgriFin Webinar on October 20, 2013. Ms. Sankey shared Diamond Banks's experience with the value chai...
Value Chain Finance Training for the WB
This presentation was given by Nikolaus Eichman, an Agribusiness Specialist with AZMJ during an AgriFin Webinar on October 20, 2013. Mr Eichman discussed a training program on value chain analysis tha...