The theme of the conference “unlocking private sector capital to scale up impact investments in African agriculture” promises to be a story of shifting the reality of agricultural finance as we know it today. Africa has in the past relied largely on Official Development Assistance and domestic public funding to address socio-economic challenges, many of which have few market-based solutions.
We all know that these traditional funding flows have been on the decline over the last decade; and this is at a time when huge resources are required for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the African Union Commission’s 2063 agenda and individual national goals.