RT @GizawLegesse: 3rd Call #FSRE Fund 20 Concept Notes Shortlisted @NLinEthiopia @agriprofocus @fsenl @APF_Ethiopia http://t.co/7M93LlErDz …RT @Marcel_Vernooij: Young Agripreneurs Ambassadors promote farming & agribusiness in Indonesia @agriprofocus @hivos @Oxfam @eastwestseed h…Christmas is the perfect time of year to let you know how much we appreciate your commitment and input.Thank you! http://t.co/dPWSThTRYZFull name of the organisation: SCOPEinsight
Member of Agri-ProFocus since: 2011
Core business: Giving sustainable agricultural farmers access to mainstream finance by stimulating better business and managerial practices and increasing the creditworthiness of producers.
Active in (Agri-Hub) countries: Ethiopia, Kenya
Contact person: Lucas Simons (Director)
For more information please visit our website.
On Saturday 6th of October, the Jimma University Agricultural College opened its doors to receive 204 farmer-leaders and 7 financial institutions. They all came to attend the first Agri-Business Finance Fair in Ethiopia. The Fair included a marketplace where farmer organisations met with banks/MFIs and held discussions on the challenges in financing agricultural business.
The Agri-Hub Kenya team is proud to report that a whopping 16,728 farmers were registered to have visited the Agri-Business Trade Fair on 10 August. The Fair was organised in close cooperation with the Kenya Livestock Producers Association (KLPA), in order to provide farmers with both financial and other agri-business services.
In the last week of November, both the Agri-Hubs in Uganda and Kenya organised Finance Fairs, where hundreds of farmers met with banks and other financial service providers. The Fairs delivered great results: posing the question to the audience of who actually did business during the Ugandan Fair resulted in a hall full of hands up!