Accra hosts first Agribusiness Investment Summit

Over 150 stakeholders from leading agribusiness firms, commercial, rural and community banks, impact investors, non-bank financial institutions, government ministers and development partners have participated in the Ghana Agribusiness Investment Summit 2014, held in Accra.

Organized by USAID Ghana’s Financing Ghanaian Agriculture Project (FinGAP) and Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s (MOFA) Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP), the Ghana Agribusiness Investment Summit 2014 is the first of its kind: an investment summit that showcases immediate and viable agribusiness investment opportunities in Ghana’s high-demand value-chains of rice, maize and soy.

A release from the Public Affairs section of the United States (US) Embassy in Accra said the key objectives of the Summit were to present concrete information and analysis on agribusiness investment opportunities in Ghana and to connect investors, financial institutions and relevant stakeholders in