CDC Group, the UK government’s development investment arm, is taking a step to help bridge what it estimates is a funding gap of as much as $31bn (R435.86bn) that Africa’s agriculture and food industry faces each year.
The 73-year-old institution is channelling $100m to smallholder African farmers through export and trading company ETG, and is seeking other partners to help it deploy more capital to the sector...
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