• Course Pitch
This course is designed around a Q & A session with Ms. Lorna Grace. The discussion is around the business models with Agribusiness Finance at the core. Specifically, the questions are designed around Farmcrowdy (Nigeria), Farmdrive (Kenya), AgriKore (Nigeria-Kenya), ProducePay (United States), CropPro Insurance (United States), Farmeco (Australia), Stellapps (India). The expertise and insights shared are around approaches to leveraging digital technologies to create better access to finance & insurance solutions to the players in the agribusiness value chain players.
Some of the critical questions to addressed are:

1) How well are such fintech products being adopted by the targeted agribusiness players?
2) How are these fintech products transforming the Agribusiness value chains?
3) Which type of value propositions would scale profitably and how would this change the incentives/profitability for different value chain players?

Lorna Grace has answered the above and several other questions in the Q & A format. The course learning and assessment would help you understand and adopt the right financial products for the context of your work/business.

• Content & Assessment Guidelines
Please review the course outline below to set your expectations related to the content & certificate assessment needs for the course. You can complete the assessment and download Agribusiness Academy completion certificate. You can expect to complete this course and certification assessment in about 3-5 hours. We wish you a lot of success with the course/pathway and very sure that it will help you gain more clarity and execution confidence towards your outcome.

• Course & the Pathway Connection
This course can be pursued independently or as part of “Sustainable Finance” learning & reflection pathway. The pathway is designed to help you understand the financial risks associated with agriculture production and the need for innovative financial products and business models that align with the needs and risks of agriculture. In this pathway considerable amount of attention is given to SmallHolder Finance and the role of “Value Chain Finance” as a very powerful model in ensuring that the value chains realise optimal growth. The business examples and the business models designed within this pathway demonstrate that strong value propositions and business models in Agriculture Finance contribute significantly to a safe and sustainable food system. If you choose to enroll in the pathway, you'll have the option to receive an extra certificate upon completing the reflection exercise for the pathway. Enrolling to the pathway also gives you access to our facilitators via the AA Slack channel. You can review and enroll to the full pathway by following this link: https://lms.agribusiness.academy/catalog/index/cat:187

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