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Limited access to capital is a key constraint for agricultural growth, due to higher perceived risks and weak financial infrastructure for the sector. This brief provides a set of policy recommendations designed to help promote the expansion of agricultural finance in Africa. It is addressed to African policy makers from the broad range of ministries, central banks and regulatory authorities involved in agricultural finance. It concerns also donors, financial institutions and farmers’ organizations engaging in policy dialogue and advocacy.

• Finance & risk management
• Hard & soft infrastructure

These Voluntary Guidelines serve as a reference and provide guidance to improve the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests with the overarching goal of achieving food security for all and to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security.

They are intended to contribute to the global and national efforts towards the eradication of hunger and poverty, based on the principles of sustainable development and with the recognition of the centrality of land to development by promoting secure tenure rights and equitable access to land, fisheries and forests.

The guidelines were drafted by FAO and its partners after extensive consultation and will be presented to the Committee on World Food Security for consideration in May 2012.

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• Delivery & implementation mechanisms
• Hard & soft infrastructure
• Investment & entrepreneurship pipeline
• Leadership and alignment
• Strategy & priorities

This report outlines Grow Africa’s core approach to achieving agricultural transformation through multi-stakeholder partnerships. It was developed by WEF’s New Vision for Agriculture Initiative, and prepared in collaboration with McKinsey & Co. It draws from global experience with ambitious public-private collaboration initiatives in the agriculture sector, and outlines six elements that are essential stepping-stones toward success in a large-scale transformation effort.

• Delivery & implementation mechanisms
• Finance & risk management
• Hard & soft infrastructure
• Investment & entrepreneurship pipeline
• Leadership and alignment
• Strategy & priorities