Kenyan financial newspaper; detailed the structural reasons for the financing gap, including risk perceptions, fragmented smallholder markets, and currency instability

Business Daily ran a pre-summit deep read identifying the structural barriers: commercial banks treat smallholder agriculture as too risky, development finance flows through slow multilateral pipelines, and currency volatility in many countries deters long-dated investment. The paper quoted World Bank and JICA representatives as saying FINAS 2026 is the first forum to attempt to align all three financing tiers simultaneously.

“Inside the push to fix Africa's broken agriculture finance system.”