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Topics

•Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Agricultural Financing

•Climate 

- How can innovation minimize agriculture’s contribution to climate change?

•An Untapped Market

- High-Saving Youth & Women- solutions to meet market segment

•Digital Finance

- Which solutions will cuts costs, increase efficiency, improve risk management, and galvanize the continent’s agricultural sector?

- Tools and frameworks for FSPs to better understand rural customers

•Rural and Agricultural Finance: Current Status and Recent Trends 

- Differences and Overlaps: Rural, Agricultural and Micro Finance

- Specific Challenges for Financial Service Provision in Rural Areas 

- Changing Paradigms in Rural Finance 

- Key Areas and Hotspots

•Financial products and services 

- Lending and Leasing 

- Payment Services and Remittances 

- Insurance and Other Risk Management Instruments

•Institutions 

- Agricultural Development Banks 

- Member-Based Financial Institutions

•Delivery Methods 

- Value Chain Financing 

- Banking beyond Branches

•Unlocking Agribusiness Initiatives and skills

- This session will explore on business Initiatives and skills put in place to enable farmers to think like business people