Organization Name / Organize By
fineresults
Organizing/Related Departments
Training
Organization Type
Company
WorkshopCategory
Both (Technical & Non Technical)
WorkshopLevel
All (State/Province/Region, National & International)
Related Industries
Education/Teaching/Training/Development
Research/Science
Agriculture/Agribusiness
Food Processing
INTRODUCTION
Lack of knowledge, skills and appropriate capital are among the challenges that are faced by Small scale farmers in the rural areas in Africa. These rural farmers therefore lack the capacity to make their farming business as efficient as possible and hence suffer economically. Organizations and institutions including microfinance have come to solve farmers’ problems but still farmers experience the challenges because they have no voice in these organizations as well as in the interventions that are designed to solve their problems. To access finances, most microfinance institutions use farm records as collateral and individual farmers in a stable farmer group as granters. This 5 days course sought to empower participants with knowledge on process of accessing rural finance.
DURATION
5 days
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Stakeholders in agriculture and agribusiness
- Farmer based groups;
- Food processors;
- Traders and intermediaries;
- Production Managers
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the course, participants will:
- Understand the special challenges of rural areas that are associated with rural and agricultural credit.
- Understand of the fundamental issues of rural finance.
- Be familiar with several innovative models and alternate ways of offering rural finance services.
- Gain skills in conducting seasonality analysis, preparing cash flows, assessing risk and appraising loans.
- Develop an understanding of new and innovative loan products and savings approaches for agriculture and rural areas.
- Gain awareness of sources and reference links to further information and support for addressing future challenges in the application of financial services in rural areas.
- Understand the importance of farm record keeping and farmer groups engagement to microfinance in the rural setting
- Understand the impact of smallholder agricultural marketing and the cost benefit analysis at farm level
- Appreciate the importance of crop and livestock insurance.
TOPICS TO BE COVERED
Module 1
- Rural financial services
- Requirements from microfinances for credit to farmers.
- Linking farm record keeping to microfinancing
Module 2
- Sustainable farmer groups with microfinancing
- Agriculture value chain financing
- Smallholder farm produce marketing.
- The role of markets in rural and agriculture financing.
Module 3
- The risk of financing farmers can be mitigated
- Bundling farm financing with other linked services.
- Crowding in key players in farm financing.
Module 4
- Evaluating a cost benefit analysis from farm productions.
- Harnessing the commercialization aspect among smallholder farmers.
- Tradeoff in farming.
- Agriculture insurance to cushion the farmer against crop yield loss
Module 5
- The impact of agriculture financing on poverty reduction and rural development.
- The effect of farm credit on increasing agricultural production and farm efficiency.
- Financial innovations to boost the uptake and use of farm credit.
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TRAINING CUSTOMIZATION
This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can also have it delivered your preferred location. For further inquiries, please contact us through Mobile: +254 732 776 700 or +254 759 285 295. You can also email us on: [email protected]
REQUIREMENTS
Participants should be reasonably proficient in English. During the trainings, participants should come with their own laptops.
TRAINING FEE
The course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits.
ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact us through Mobile: +254 732 776 700/+254 759 285 295 or Email: [email protected]
Registration Fees
Available
Registration Fees Details
USD 800, KES 65,000
Registration Ways
Email
Phone
Website
Address/Venue
Fahari Palace Apartments, along Church Road, Nairobi Kenya
Fahari Palace Apartments, along Church Road, Nairobi Kenya