By Ndubuisi Ekekwe Agro-Financing Farmers make up 70% of Africa’s workforce. However, many smallholder farmers are operating at a fraction of their potential capacity. Africa contains 60% of the world’s non-cultivated arable land, yet African governments spend $35 billion annually on food imports. A major hurdle for African farmers is a lack of access to agriculture finance: financial services that allow farmers to improve their efficiency, adopt new technologies and connect with new markets. In recent years,…
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