CLIMATE CHANGE IS impacting the African agriculture sector in unprecedented ways, and farmers are ill-equipped to cope with the rise in temperature, drought and diseases affecting crop and harvests. According to a multi-country report by Grow Africa titled the Enabling Environment, private sector investment in Africa is also being seriously hampered by a number of factors, all of them having an impact on economic and industrial growth. Topping this list is a lack of access to finance, with 35 per cent of the respondents citing lack of access to affordable finance as a key hurdle to getting projects off the ground. Other challenges cited in the report include lack of infrastructure, skills and policy.
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