How to fix Kenya’s agriculture financing crisis

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Two articles published on Tuesday, one in the Business Daily and another in the Daily Nation, unintentionally tell the same story.

The first argues that Africa must rethink how it finances food systems (“Africa Must Relook at Food Systems Financing”), while the second shows, in real time, why financing agriculture in Kenya remains so difficult (“Maize Price Dips as Imports Spark Losses”).

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