Zipping Farmers and Finance

[Wim Goris]

Maybe you have heard about this rural finance meeting in Kampala, organised by the Bank of Uganda and the Partnership for Making Finance Work for Africa.The Zipping conference recognised that Agricultural Finance needs special attention, as the financial services needs of Agriculture Sectors in Africa are pressing.

 

Please find information on the conference here and below:

• Link to Zipping farmers and finance conference site
• Zipping Farmers and Finance Conference Paper (65 pages)
• Kampala Principles on Agri-Finance (1 page)

 

I'd like to receive comments on the Kampala Principles onepager. My question to all is what you think of them. Do they apply to Mozambique too ? What would you add, skip or stress in these principles ?

 

I highly appreciate your comments and discussion here as input for a dutch debriefing event on Zipping farmers and finance next 30 August in Utrecht.

 

Wim Goris

Agri-ProFocus

[Wim Goris]

Dear all,

Thank you all for reading and/or contributing to the discussion on this ning. Time to share follow-up:

• I mentioned the Dutch debriefing event (30 August). Here are the minutes. These minutes and comments on Kampala Principles were also shared with MFW4A- the organizers of the Zipping farmers and finance event.
• The MFW4A follow-up included an event in Addis Ababa Ethiopia: Making Finance Work For Africa 2011 Partnership For Africa, held 15 and 16 september. Participant Christine Ngugi is kindly sharing her notes of the Addis event (attached).
• Read more about the preparations for a MFW4A AgFin working group that will work on finance policy recommendations; support/link to CAADP plans; and finance knowledge management.

Have you been at the Addis conference? Any questions to participants? Feel free to share your views too !

Kind regards,

Wim Goris