agribusiness

The Albania Agribusiness Support Facility is addressing this challenge by improving access to finance for local agribusinesses through dedicated credit lines or by sharing the risk of lending to the agribusiness sector.

In addition to financing instruments, the framework also includes technical assistance to help financial institutions enhance their lending, as well as advisory services through the EBRDs Advice for Small Businesses that will help agribusiness small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop their performance in a wide range of areas and improve their bankability.

Sessions will explore critical issues such as how the cost of fertiliser for West African farmers and how supply chains of agricultural inputs can be improved, how local government and international suppliers of fertiliser can work in partnership to build strong agribusiness," said Pierre Brunache, Chief Agribusiness Officer at AFAP.

To properly confront these changes, a new perspective on the strategic management of agribusiness is necessary.

Peterson has previously led Wells Fargo's agribusiness lending operations out of Fresno for California's Central Valley, one of the world's most-productive agricultural regions.

A fourth-generation family farmer, Peterson assumes the new role after being head of the company's agribusiness lending operations out of Fresno for California's Central Valley.

BMI's India Agribusiness Report includes independent commodity price forecasting and analysis for key agricultural outputs, an overview of the agribusiness competitive landscape and a discussion of the downstream context of agricultural production in relation to country food consumption forecasts and composite food and beverage trade forecasts.

FARA's partners in UniBRAIN are the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi- Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) based in India, the Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA), in Botswana, the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD), in Senegal, the Association for strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA), the African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE), in Kenya, and the Pan African Agribusiness and Agro Industry Consortium (PanAAC), in Kenya,

ICRISAT will use its Agribusiness and Innovation Platform initiative to help set up agribusiness incubators for farmers across Africa, along the lines of its networks of incubators in India.

Some 300 agriculture experts are expected at Agribusiness East Africa which will represent the entire agribusiness spectrum: from input suppliers, agro-processors, traders, exporters, retailers, commercial farmers, processors, policy makers to government and associations.

Thus, agribusiness is all about how to conduct successful business in the food and agriculture related sectors.

This expected growth highlights the growing market and many opportunities for agribusiness in southern Africa and related value chain role players to expand into Africa," said Brewer.

ESTATE agent Savills has appointed Ashley Lilley as head of agribusiness for central England and Wales.

A workshop held at the Songhai Centre in Porto Novo, Republic of Benin, in October 2012 discussed the development of agribusiness entrepreneurship and agribusiness value chains as a way of empowering young women and men in Western Africa.

The loan will help expand agricultural value chains and facilitate better linkages for small-scale farmers with processors, agribusiness entrepreneurs, and service providers in Muzaffarpur and Patna-Nalanda regions of Bihar.