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Why can a promising agribusiness struggle to secure financing? In this episode of Inside The Food Economy, Sharon speaks with Eze Nwakanma, who leads agribusiness and non-oil exports at Union Bank, about how agricultural finance works and what lenders look for.
Nwakanma explains why financing needs differ across farming, processing, and exports. He shares how farmer aggregation can make lending more viable, why proof of concept and verifiable cash flow matter, and what factors banks consider when assessing a business, from repayment capacity and market access to seed quality, irrigation, and crop suitability.
The conversation also explores the challenges facing primary production in Nigeria, including insecurity, low yields, limited mechanisation, side-selling, and the need to attract younger people to agriculture. Nwakanma makes the case for development finance and credit guarantees, and explains why commercial lending alone cannot sustainably meet the sector’s financing needs.
Together, Sharon and Nwakanma unpack what agribusinesses can do to become more investment-ready and what needs to change to support a stronger food economy.
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14 Sept 2026
Inside Agribusiness Finance with Dorothy Kyomuhangi
In this episode of Inside the Food Economy, we look at the role of finance in Africa’s agrifood sector with Dorothy Kyomuhangi Senior Investment Associate at Pearl Capital Partners.
Dorothy shares her perspective on financing agribusinesses, the types of businesses attracting capital, and what it takes to deploy patient and appropriately structured capital across production, aggregation, processing, value addition and distribution.
We also discuss the realities of investing across East Africa and the wider Sub-Saharan African market, and what businesses need to understand when seeking capital for growth.
Inside the Food Economy is a special series on the Let’s Talk Agriculture Podcast by LTA Forum, exploring how different parts of Africa’s food economy work through the people building, financing and operating within them.
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6 Sept 2026
Nutrition Manufacturing with Ramesh Moochikal
In this episode, Sharon Nkwah speaks with Ramesh Moochikal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramesh-m-d-565930?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios), CEO of Africa Improved Foods, about nutrition manufacturing and the role it plays within Africa’s food economy.
They discuss how nutrition-focused food manufacturing works, sourcing raw materials, quality and production, the economics behind the business, working with smallholder farmers, public-private partnerships, and operating across different African markets.
Ramesh also shares his perspective on what Africa needs to build more food and nutrition manufacturing businesses.
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