Masresha Yimer Kelkele

Masresha Yimer Kelkele

socio economic development research, M& Es Senior Expert/Specialist, Researcher/Consultant
INDIVIDUAL consultant to Bilateral & Multilateral Dev't organizations
Ethiopia

Socioeconomic denvelopment, M & Es, trade & markets, value chains, BDS, private sector development and MSMEs, Gender, Regional & Local development, Food Secuity Senforcement Expert/Specialist, Researcher/Consultant to Bilateral and Multimately International Denvelopment Agenies, incl. different UN agencies. 

 

My contributions

    • Financing as you rightly put is crucial to implement what we pledge to implement  for the agriculture setctor and our people at large. 

      Important aspects in this regard from the perspective of developing economies include:

      - expanding the tax base, 

      - making agriculture to be on the low carbon development path, and taxing/charging agri investments that are chemical intensive, reallocating the collection to support natural fertilizer based agri development practices among especially small holder farmers, 

      - making aggressive effort to create properly functioning agricultural value chains, that are deliberately well designed and interlinked farm to market levels, rather than spot market based relations among different value chain actors, 

       - with in the agricultural value chain development, develop also what is also called Value Chain financing, among actors linked vertically, such as a brewery offering pre and post harvest financing to farmers to adopt required modern farm inputs, seeds, farming practices, etc ...  benefiting themselves through better yield and output, and better quantity and quality of farm produce (e.g., barely) supplied to the breweries. 

      -  such value chain financing is helpful especially in common situations of lack of well functioning micro finance or other financing options in the rural farming areas. 

      Thanks for now.