The challenges faced by agri-finance facilities across Africa
Aceli Africa, a financial facilitating company, recently released a working paper that examines how central bank policies in East African countries such as Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda affect lending to small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in agriculture.
The key issue is that there is an annual deficit of an estimated US$100 billion (about R1,6 trillion) in financing for agricultural SMEs across sub-Saharan Africa, according to
