This webinar will focus on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): opportunities for SMEs and businesses in the agrifood sector.

We have a very exciting panel featuring successful businesses and SMEs across various value chains in added-value products serving regional markets in Africa. We will also have the perspective from research, policy and finance experts.

Welcome: Fatma Ben Rejeb, CEO, PAFO

Moderator: Isolina Boto, Head of Networks and Alliances, COLEACP

Findings from a PAFO study: Positioning of African Farmers Organizations (FOs) in the context of the AfCFTA, John Bosco Kanyangoga, PAFO

Panel: Successes of businesses

• Moussa S. Diakité, Fondateur, SCS International, Mali
• Michael Annan-Forson, CEO-Melach Groups, Ghana
• Dan Jakana, CEO of Jakana Foods Ltd, Uganda

Discussants

• Prudence Sebahizi, Chief Technical Advisor on the AfCFTA and Head of the AfCFTA Negotiations Support Unit, Department of Trade and Industry, African Union Commission
• Lucy Muchoki, CEO, Pan African Agribusiness and Agroindustry Consortium (PanAAC), Kenya
• Remco Vahl, Expert, Senior Expert, DG Trade, European Commission