Financial Inclusion and Risk Management for Agricultural Development

Date: 2-4 May 2018
Venue: Balme Library, W.E.B. Dubois Rd, Accra, University of Ghana, Legon

Type of Event: workshop 

The workshop focused on two main objectives:

  1. Training on Financial Inclusion and Agriculture Development
  2. Training on Financial Risk Management

Conveners and Resource Persons

Professor Robert Lensink; Professor of Finance and Development; University of Groningen and Wageningen University. Team Leader project: “Information transparency system as a lowcost scalable solution to farmers' access to credit and services.” Email: b.w.lensink@rug.nl

Professor Victor Murinde; AXA Professor in Global Finance & Director, Centre for Global Finance; School of Finance and Management; SOAS University of London; PI for the ESRC Ref. ES/N013344/2 research project on ‘Delivering Inclusive Financial Development and Growth; email: v.murinde@soas.ac.uk

Professor Issouf SOUMARÉ, Professor of Finance; Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering of Laval University (www.labiful.com), Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, Faculty of Business Administration; Canada; Email : issouf.soumare@fsa.ulaval.ca

The trainings particulally drew on insights and findings from three related research projects