The Agriculture Summit Africa (ASA) is one of the continent’s leading platforms dedicated to creating a convergence of the private and public sector players, investors, and agriculture practitioners across the entire value chain.
Sterling Bank identifies Agriculture as a priority sector and has committed to convene an annual summit that brings together key stakeholders and investors to discuss issues, analyze trends, proffer solutions to identified issues, provide a platform for networking, enable businesses and advocate for policy implementation to grow agribusiness across the continent.
ASA provides a platform for multidisciplinary discussions on pervasive issues, offering practical solutions that will drive an integrated approach for agric-focused innovations in Africa while exploring an inclusive trade liberalization agenda to facilitate trade. It also unveils current trends, innovations, and opportunities in agribusiness for public and private-sector collaboration across Africa.
This year’s conference is themed ‘Fast-Forward Agriculture: Exploiting the next revolution’.
Panel Session 1 - Role of Technology and Data in Agriculture
This session will be discussing the role of technology and data in agriculture with the primary focus of leveraging innovation and technology in transforming Africa’s agribusiness landscape.
Panel Session 2 – Role of Financial Intermediation in Agriculture
This session focuses on the financing opportunities available in the Agric sector and the challenges of accessing funds by industry players across scale, with the aim of constructing the ideal framework to attract sizeable investments
Panel Session 3 – Impact of Climate change on Agriculture
This session will address concerns about climate change on agriculture in Africa with a focus on adopting climate-smart practices, making smart climate financing, and expanding the role of research and development in mitigating adverse climatic effects
