Agribusiness Finance - Certificate Course
Need to understand key principles of value chain finance? Want to design or utilise finance products in agriculture? Struggling with cash flow in your agribusiness?
If so, this course is designed for you.
This self-paced, online certificated course is brought to you by Small Finance, Big Change and powered by Agribusiness Academy.
The course features 8 lessons and assessment exercises .
The course fees are a one-off cost of $149, including all taxes. You can begin immediately and it is recommended you allow 3 hours per week to complete the course in 6-8 weeks, though you are free to progress at your own pace.
Lessons
All lessons are accessed through the Agribusiness Academy learning platform and feature short tests along the way to ensure you understand the concepts and know how to apply them in your own work.
Introduction and Context
This audio lesson is an introduction to the world of agri finance, an exploration of key themes from the course and a chance to meet Lorna.
Smallholders and Value Chain Finance
This video lesson helps you understand smallholders’ challenges and available (and potential) solutions.
Finance in the Agribusiness Value Chain
This video lesson explores how finance interacts with agriculture value chains and how these chains lend themselves to effective finance.
Types of Value Chain Finance Products
This video lesson looks at types, models and categories of value chain finance products as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
Designing and Quantifying a Financial Product
This video lesson teaches you principles of designing and quantifying a financial product as well as a look into cashflow and its importance.
Cash Flow Tool
This video lesson explores what is needed to design and use a cash flow tool (financial modelling) for effective decision making.
The Forgotten Finance
This video lesson looks at overlooked financial products and how they can use value chains to support dissemination and management.
Agri Finance in a Digital Age
This Q&A session with Lorna answers questions from previous learners of the course and includes several interesting case studies.
You can download a full breakdown of lessons and outcomes here.
Assessment and Certification
After completing all the courses and knowledge booster assessments you will be eligible for a certificate from Agribusiness Academy.
About The Expert
Lorna Grace is an agribusiness finance specialist, and founder of her finance consulting company, Small Finance Big Change.
With a background in investment banking and microfinance, she has been exclusively working in agriculture finance since 2005 as both a project manager and a consultant. Lorna holds an MBA from University of Alberta and a BA from Harvard and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
She has authored or contributed to a number of studies and books including, Financing Agriculture Value Chains – LAC, Access to Finance for Smallholders, Analyzing Costs, and Savings Services for the Poor. Lorna has also developed and taught costing analysis and farm cash flow courses at Boulder Microfinance in Italy, the Netherlands and Latin America.
Currently Lorna consultants on agriculture finance projects in Ghana, Rwanda and Nepal, developing financial products for equipment and production finance. In total she has worked in more than 40 countries across the world.
Lorna is an avid gardener (of course!) and mother to a teenage son, living in Vancouver, BC.
About Agribusiness Academy
Agribusiness Academy is at the heart of online learning in the food and agribusiness sector.
We have an online learning platform, library of digital content and in-house expertise completely dedicated to the food, agriculture and retail sectors. We work with institutions, organisations and businesses around the world to enable more people than ever before to get access to agribusiness education.
We’re delighted to work with Small Finance Big Change on this exclusive course as it serves a much needed skill of understanding and apply solid principles of agri finance.
Not quite ready?
Try our Agri Finance short course from Digital School of Agriculture as a perfect introduction to Lorna and this topic. Get started here.