"Rooted in Africa, Built for the World"

Format: Investor Intelligence | Pillar: CAPITAL, DFIs & INVESTMENT* "The IFC, AfDB, and UKEF collectively committed over $8bn to African agribusiness in the last 5 years. Ask any smallholder in Rwanda or Ghana if they felt it. Most haven't."* --- ## The Gap Between the Billions and the Farm Gate There is a number that gets repeated in every DFI press release, every impact investing summit, every development finance panel in London, Geneva, and Washington DC. The number change

By RIC Brands | Africa Trade & Investment Intelligence --- There is a particular kind of confidence that belongs only to nations that have never been broken. Ethiopia carries that confidence in its bones. It is the oldest independent country in Africa, one of the oldest civilisations on Earth, and today — with over $18.6 billion in foreign direct investment attracted over the past five years, a state airline that just won Africa's best, and the continent's wealthiest man bett