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Academia de Centroamérica
The seminar is being organized to take place in Costa Rica in the second half of November, 2009.
The target audience will be representatives of financial entities active in the agricultural sector, non-financial companies with a stake in the sector (producers, cooperatives, processors, exporters, marketers, input suppliers), Government authorities, business chambers, non-governmental organizations, international organizations and academic the use of agricultural value chains as a mechanism for offering financial services to all the stakeholders involved.
The event will attract a variety of speakers: 41 representing over 20 countries from Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Speakers and participants will examine during two days best practices in the use of agricultural value chains as mechanisms to deliver financial services to non-financial actors in the chains. The experience of micro and small actors will be analyzed, individual and associated, as well as that of medium and large firms. It will also cover the perspective of banks, private and state-owned, local and international, as well as the point of view of credit unions, private finance companies and microfinance institutions. Financial services in a broad sense will be studied, from credit to risk management. The third day will allow to visit leading actors in agricultural value chains in Costa Rica, while in the fourth, a workshop will take place, to undertake an in depth analysis of different tool kits for strengthening value chains and value chain finance.
Source: Academia de Centroamérica
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