From Modern Ghana

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

Organized by USAID Ghana’s Financing Ghanaian Agriculture Project (FinGAP) and Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s 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.

The key objectives of the Summit are to present concrete information and analysis on agribusiness investment opportunities in Ghana and to connect investors, financial institutions and relevant stakeholders in order to share information and do more business.

Ghana’s Minister of Food and Agriculture, Hon. Clement Kofi Humado and the United States Ambassador to Ghana, Gene Cretz, participated with Ghana’s Deputy Ministers of Finance, and Trade and Industry along with other high-level US government representatives and CEOs of leading agribusiness firms. Ambassador Cretz noted, “Agriculture is the engine of Ghana’s economic growth, and full private sector participation is the fuel for that engine.”

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