Participants of this course will gain a broad perspective on the concept of agricultural finance and acquire the necessary skills to design feasible operations, products and delivery channels.

The objectives of the training programme are to enable the participants to:

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• Have a thorough understanding of agriculture and agribusiness;
• Understand agricultural value chain and value chain analysis;
• Adopt best practices in agribusiness loan products administration and debt servicing;
• Apply the concepts of appraisals and analysis in the context of agricultural lending;
• Apply the concepts of credit and cash flow analysis in agricultural lending; and
• Develop a thorough understanding agricultural risk management.

CONTENT

• Creating an enabling environment to mobilize agricultural finance
• Strengthening of Relevant Institutions concerned with agriculture financing
• Developing Innovative Products that addresses financing in agriculture.
• Agriculture Investment Challenges/ Risks
• Interventions for Overcoming Investment Challenges
• Examples of Impactful Interventions/ Experience
• Agriculture warehouse receipt financing frameworks
• The contribution of agriculture subsidies on agriculture financing.
• Building capacity of public financial institutions, to establish commodity exchanges, and to build capacity of MFIs
• The role of financial cooperatives in the provision of financial services to smallholder farmers, rural MSMEs and households.
• Agriculture value chain financing.
• The role of mobile banking & payment platforms in enhancing access to finance and reduction in transaction costs
• Ways of reducing operating costs in reaching to smallholder farmers and SME agribusinesses
• Access to finance for women in agriculture
• The use of digital financial instruments in agriculture
• Financial solutions for “green” agricultural investments promoting resilience of agriculture to climate change and reduction of agriculture’s footprint on the environment.
• Problems in the agricultural credit system

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:

Nigeria - $3000
Ghana - $6500
Rwanda - $7500
UK - $8500
USA - $8500