AFRICA KILIMO

AFRICA-KILIMO is the FIRST and Currently the ONLY podcast on AFRICAN AGRICULTURE.  We discuss solutions to various challenges facing African Agriculture. Viewpoint of experienced practitioners in the field give us useful insights and perspectives that we generally miss.

In this Episode of Africa Kilimo we have Mr. Dewan Alamgir, a development expert who has vast experience in South East Asian countries - India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal etc. We discuss his experiences and learn how small holder agriculture experience of SE Asian countries benefit the vast continent of AFRICA

KEY Words: small holder Agriculture, Agriculture, Employment, Development, agri-value chains

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AFRICA-KILIMO is the FIRST and Currently the ONLY podcast on AFRICAN AGRICULTURE.  We discuss solutions to various challenges facing African Agriculture. Viewpoint of experienced practitioners in the field give us useful insights and perspectives that we generally miss.

In this Episode of Africa Kilimo we have Mr. Shailesh Vickram Singh as our guest. mMr. Singh is a serial entrepreneur and is an accomplished Venture Capitalist too! He manages India's very successful Venture Funds focussed on agriculture and Environment. We discuss how entities like his could help bring in investment in African countries to boost agriculture, environment and rural employment.

KEY Words: Venture Capital, Agriculture, Employment, Development, Investments

Our Instagram page is now live . You can visit us there too. Our Instagram ID is @africakilimo

AFRICA-KILIMO is the FIRST and Currently the ONLY podcast on AFRICAN AGRICULTURE.  We discuss solutions to various challenges facing African Agriculture. Viewpoint of experienced practioners in the field give us useful insights and perspectives that we generally miss.

Our Instagram page is now live . You can visit us there too. Our Instagram ID is @africakilimo

AFRICA-KILIMO is the FIRST and Currently the ONLY podcast on AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

In this episode we discuss solutions to various challenges facing African Agriculture. Our guest discussing these solutions is Mr John Logan, Country Director, TechnoServe, Kenya. He is based out of Nairobi. Using his long and rich experience in the development sector, Mr Logan  discusses various ways in which problems can be resolved. We found this discussion very encouraging.

The opening sequence is a short clip of the rendering by Jimi Hendrix for representational purposes only. You can find this song at the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY 

Similarly the full song of the ending sequence can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTJSt4wP2ME A n inspirational song indeed.

AFRICA-KILIMO is the FIRST and ONLY podcast on AFRICAN AGRICULTURE

This episode of AFRICA Kilimo features an interview with Mr. Sanjeev Anand, Group Managing Director for Retail and Commercial Banking at Atlas Mara Ltd.  Prior to this assignment, Mr. Anand was the MD of Banque Populaire du Rwanda Ltd (BPR), part of Atlas Mara. Before he joined BPR,  he was Managing Director of I&M Bank Rwanda Limited (previously Banque Commerciale du Rwanda-BCR). During this period, he managed the transition of ownership of the bank from Actis to the I&M consortium, comprising I&M Bank, DEG and PROPARCO. Mr. Anand had a long career of 25 years with Citibank, where he held a number of senior assignments across Asia, Europe, America and Africa. Some of the key positions he held during this period were as CEO of Citibank in Zambia and Uganda and Executive Director of Citibank Nigeria.  He was a member of the BASEL task force in Poland. Mr. Anand has worked along with governments, private and public sector, DFI’s and multilateral agencies on handling sovereign debt issues, infrastructure financing and many development initiatives in Africa. He is passionate about Agriculture and its potential for Africa.

With Mr. Anand, we explore the status of financing for agriculture, agri-finance and bank credit for the sector.  We discuss the challenges and possible solutions to overcome the roadblocks to effective and efficient agriculture financing in Africa, Setting up of multi-country linkages, institutions, and government policies.