Theme: “Greening Uganda’s Agricultural Finance Environment for sustainable Agro industrialisation.”
Background
Uganda’s financial sector has an important role to support climate change adaptation and mitigation initiatives. The country faces several challenges in securing financing for the private sector in general and particularly in the local green sector. While green growth offers immense social, economic and environmental benefits, Uganda lacks an elaborate and enabling framework for operationalisation of innovative climate finance instruments such as carbon finance, parametric disaster/climate risk insurance, debt for nature/climate swaps and green bonds, among others.
Objective of the 2026 Agricultural Finance Yearbook
The 2026 Agricultural Finance Yearbook aims to generate discourse on how Uganda’s financial sector can effectively deliver sustainable financing through greening of the Agricultural finance environment.
Specifically, it aims to offer an in-depth understanding of the progress achieved so far in streamlining the policy, legal and regulatory framework, the status of Agri-SMEs and value chains that qualify for green finance, the capacity building needs for potential customers and financial institutions, the regulatory constraints on the financial sector for providing green loans, the operation of innovative green financial products on the market, the lending risk and mitigation measures for provision of green finance, structuring and interest rates of green finance products among other aspects concerning green finance.
Call for Authors to draft articles
In this regard, the Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), calls for policy-oriented papers on the following broad sub-themes. (i) Policy environment for green financing, (ii) Innovative green finance services and products, (iii) Financing green agricultural enterprises and value chains, (iv) Managing green financing risks and (v) Progress and Investment in Capacity Building for green financing, among others.
Mode of Submission
Interested agricultural finance professionals, researchers, consultants, academicians, policy makers, bankers, microfinance institutions, development partners and other stakeholders in the agricultural finance space in Uganda and beyond are welcome to submit article proposals between 750 to 1,000 words on or before July 02, 2026.
The article proposals should clearly explain the green financing policy issue being addressed, objectives, data sources and proposed policy solutions in line with the above sub-themes or any other related to agricultural finance not listed above. The title of the proposed article, full name of author, affiliations and contact information should be indicated clearly.
The article proposal should be emailed to bsserunjogi@eprcug.org
Authorship Honorarium
Authors of selected proposals shall be facilitated with a modest stipend. This facilitation shall be paid upon final submission and acceptance of the final article by the chief editor.
