Essays on Lenders

Chapter III

This chapter will review the background of Real Property Law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In order to lay the foundation for comparisons in subsequent chapters, the elements of the Saudi judicial system and real property law will be reviewed. The background information pertaining to Saudi Arabia will feature the judicial court system, the property rights and real property ownership. A review of the current mortgage law in Saudi Arabia will be analyzed as well as possible reform to include the application of anti-deficiency laws.

Introduction

Saudi Arabia is governed by a monarchy. Its current legal system under the ...

Introduction

The financial crisis of 2007/9 was the worst in the U.S. since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was the cause of the failure of some of the biggest financial institutions including Washington Mutual which was closed in 2008, and its assets transferred to JP Morgan. In 2008, the crisis reached its peak with loans dropping dramatically to the lowest levels to be witnessed in a half a century. For example, new loans to large borrowers fell by 47 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 as compared to the previous quarter and by 79 percent relative to ...

Introduction

In the United States, some bodies have been formed with the aim of preventing consumer and investor exploitation. These bodies are aimed at providing financial protection to the citizens. Some special laws such as Usury laws have also been formed to protect the citizens from exploitation. These bodies include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of Currency, the Security Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) (Mckay & Seale, 2000).

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and its purpose

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent public corporation based in the United States. It was formed in the year 1933 ...

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Introduction

Technology advancement is a requirement for all public systems where users come in large numbers. One such critical functioning system is the Air Traffic Control system of the America. America’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) system had been running for the past 40 years and catering to the burgeoning traffic at the airports. At any given time in the United States, approximately 7000 aircraft are flying in the country’s airspace. The country’s air traffic system had been catering to the ever increasing demand. However, it ...

1. Misconceptions Money generation remains central to economic activity. The process of how money is generated / created and destroyed is not, in fact, readily understood and is subject to numerous misconceptions. If anything, main conceptions about money creation and destroy assumes a linear conceptualization mode. Typically, money is widely – but mistakenly – believed to be created and destroyed by a direct relationship by which an owner places money deposits in a financial institution which, sooner or later, lends money to borrowers and hence creates more money. In modern era, particularly in a global financial system in which financial transactions ...

CHAPTER II

This chapter will seek to conduct an absolute inquiry into what makes up security interest laws in the United States. In order to lay the foundation for comparisons in subsequent chapters, the three main elements of the study of the Saudi system will be reviewed here in the context of U.S laws with an emphasis on California state law. The features of the California legal system will include the assessment of foreclosure rules and patterns in California. This will include a detailed fact-based evaluation of CCP580 (b), CCP580 (d) and CCP726 (a). The different components will enable the study ...

Meaning of Neighborhood Stabilization Program

NSP (Neighborhood Stabilization Program) is an initiative established by the U.S Congress with the objective of stabilizing communities that have been subjected to property abandonment and foreclosures. This program was initiated under Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, and it was intended to repurchase and redevelop the abandoned and foreclosed properties and homes (Neighborhood, 2016). Low- income individuals who default to service their mortgages usually have their residential property repossessed by the lenders. People are evicted from their homes, resulting in abandonment and foreclosure of the property. Such property would remain under the ownership of private lenders after ...

Credit Risk Management

Commercial Loan Market Commercial loans are debt arrangements agreed upon by the lender (business) and borrower (financial institution) to cover operational costs or fund business projects. During economic downturn, financial institutions are cautious of their lending and consequently import strict regulations that force borrowers to pay a higher interest rate. The agreement between the lender and borrower in the market is documented in a “credit agreement.” In credit risk management, the most important components of the agreement describe the covenants, the security requirements, priority of payments and events of default.

Segmentation of Commercial Loan Market

Financial institutions use credit rating to qualify borrowers based ...

A steward is a person, who manages their wealth and other possessions wisely. God is the owner of all things on earth and ewe should respect him as the overall proprietor. A Christian can practice sound financial stewardship in various ways, according to the will of God. The paper covers ways in which a Christian can practice stewardship based on scriptures. It includes how various people interpret different scriptures. Lastly, the paper includes the lessons learned from the scriptures, which will be summarized into several basic stewardship principles.

Scriptures discussing ways of practicing stewardship

Stewardship can be practiced by giving or tithing faithfully to God ...

Introduction

This paper evaluates how entrepreneurs can interpret and utilize different business ratios to the advantage of their business. The four vital rations include leverage, operation, profitability and liquidity ratios (Scarborough, Wilson, and Zimmerer 250).

How an entrepreneur can construe and utilize different business ratios

Business ratios are fundamental in determining the financial status of a company at a given time. There are twelve financial ratios, some of which appear on a company's financial records. However, both small and large entrepreneurs use four important ratios. The liquidity ratio exhibits a company’s capacity to settle its short-term debt commitments (Vasiu, Nicolae and Iulian 188). A high ratio displays that the ...

Finance is a vast area of discussion that requires one's dedication and interest to understand it better. Under finance, there are major issues like corporate financial policy which has a lot to be studied. The corporate fiscal policy is defined as an innovative corporate finance course that mainly touches on equity and debt management, for example, the descriptions of types of debt and equity, distribution policy and security issuance, for instance, the design of capital structure and securities that controls information problems. The sub-topics in securities and financial policy can be discussed in details as below.

Debt and equity management.

Debt and equity ...

5 C’s of Credit 5 C’s of Credit In early times, the lack of financial institutions and absence of banks resulted in the exploitation of poor by the greedy financiers. Borrowers can only escape from the clutches of loan sharks if they have easy access to efficient credit networks. Moreover, credit network is also required so that the savers can deposit their money in reliable financial intuitions so that it can be channelized from the rich people to the poor industrialists (Ferguson, 2008). The primary relationship that money defines is between a lender and a borrower. This ...

Abstract

When borrowers fail to pay their debt, lenders have a right to recover their loans from borrowers. There is a judicial foreclosure process that every lender has to follow in state of Florida. The state of Florida has witnessed very high rate of foreclosure in recent times in comparison of other US states. There is no other process of foreclosure in the state of Florida while other states provide other states provide alternative ways to foreclosure. Florida is not the only one state where judicial foreclosure is the sole process of foreclosure, but there are several other states that ...

Significance of Accounts Receivable Practice

The most primary element for the success of a business is the way in which the systems of accounts receivable management, collections and billing are maintained. Often, this type of management collectively is known as the system of collections management. The main key to the success of this system is to manage it diligently. It is because having large amount of customers is not enough to run a successful business; revenue needs to be collected from these customers (Clarke, 2016). There are a number of reasons for a business setting up the accounts receivable in a given organization. When ...

Risk exposures: The Financial Transaction Risks Table

Features of the method used to measure the interest rate identified Before determining the best method to be used in the measurement of the interest risk, it is essential to assess the source of the risk. The most common sources of interest rate risk are security mismatching for various items in the balance sheet depending on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable. The value assets lead to interest rate risk when there are valuation problems as well as in situations where interest rates are not aligned with the liabilities and assets (Kaufman, 1984). Various methods are applicable ...

Financial recess is never a novel term. Depressions have always hit the financial system of the world, and the latest recess America is most likely not the final one. Nonetheless, many issues worked together to make the recent U.S crisis the worst financial recession since the global downturn. These factors include failures of market, weaknesses in the execution of policy, as well as macroeconomic problems. The primary concept, which had controlled economic thinking for many years, was that markets functioned. The appropriate prices often get a buyer as well as a seller. Besides, millions of sellers, as well as ...

Introduction to PepsiCo Incorporated

PepsiCo is an American multinational company having its origin in the United States. The company is a market leader in the global beverage industry. The biggest and worldwide competitor to PepsiCo is the Coca-Cola Company. PepsiCo serves the worldwide market and gain access to audience by mainly sponsoring sports events, players and teams.

Pro-Forma Financial Statements of PepsiCo Incorporated for 2016 (the next period)

This section is aimed at displaying the financial statements of PepsiCo for the next financial accounting period (2016) as well as the last statements for 2015. The pro-forma income statement and balance sheet are prepared by assuming a ten percent increase in sales revenue and cost ...

Summary of Chapter 12

Introduction Yescombe presents on Chapter 12 issues between the lenders and the Project Company related to Cash-Flow Controls, Security and Enforcement (202). The author posits that the Public Authority has to review the lenders’ documents to make sure there will be no impediments for the Project Company to carry its mandate. Control of Cash Flows: The Project Company’s cash flows is closely controlled by the lenders, as they will depend on the residual flows to receive their payments (Yescombe 202). The lenders control expenditures via the Disbursement Account, which receives the inflows from equity and loans, and is ...

2008 Financial Crisis 2008 Financial Crisis The Financial crisis in the year 2008 affected globally. The onset of the recession started with the huge flow of money in the American economy. During the year 2001 U.S faced  recession but for a short span of time. In order to recover the economy the Federal Reserve lowered the interest rate from 6.5% in May 2000 to 1.75 % in December 2001. Money was cheaper and investors invested more money in the economy. This was the beginning of the problem. The trigger of the crisis was the housing bubble.

As credit was easily ...

The financial plan is presented as below:

Financial Plan The following would be the projected income statement for the Company in the first year of operation. The profit for the business in the first year can be expected to be higher than a thousand dollars. The asset planning for the business can also be presented in the following table. The asset has been prepared keeping in mind the conservative policy of asset planning.

Guerrilla Marketing Plan

Guerrilla marketing is all about understanding the market and competition dynamics and using unique ways of marketing ideas and products. For the expansion plan that is under consideration, the following aspects could be ...

Introduction

In late 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at a record low. Stock markets around the world nose-dived alongside the DJIA. Turbulence in the sub-prime segment of the US housing market, paralysis of the credit markets, excessive lay-offs in organizations, steep decline in investments etc. were all some of the indicators that the world was heading for a massive credit crunch. In the words of Mr. Strauss-Kahn, head of IMF, “Intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest U.S.-based and European financial institutions have pushed the global financial system to the brink of systemic meltdown” (BBC ...

Importance of underwriting standards to healthy real estate finance markets

Underwriting standards refer to guidelines established for ensuring that secure and safe loans are maintained and issued. The standards are crucial in setting the benchmarks on how much the debts can be issued, the loans’ terms, how much a company is ready and willing or can afford to issue as well as what rate of interest is to be charged. The standards complement the Banks’ Acts, Loan and Trust Acts, Cooperate Credit Association Acts, Insurance Companies Acts’ relevant provisions and the governments’ mortgage insurance frameworks that are guaranteed and which establishes rules for the insured mortgages that are government-backed ( ...

Audit and Internal Control

Question 1 - Relationship between the Concepts of ‘Business Risk’ and ‘Financial Statement Risk’ The business risk and financial statement risk tend to have a direct relationship with one another because occurrence of business risks, if not addressed by the internal management of ABCDE Company in a timely and wise manner, will potentially result in material misstatements of the figures in financial statements of ABCDE Company. For instance, due to increase in competition, the demand for cleaning equipment sold by ABCDE Company to commercial cleaning contractors decreases which itself is identified as a business risk for ABCDE Company. Due ...

Company and Situation

According to Cadieux (2010) the worst recession since the 1930s started at the end of 2007 and was at its peak by the fall of 2008. Several businesses were shattered are some were facing serious economic challenges because of the financial crisis. Government offered various bailed out packages to save financial institutions from huge loss. The packages were offered by providing loans, equity, and guarantees. Goldman Sachs was one of the companies that suffered a great loss. Goldman Sachs is an American financial institution that provides financial services to its clients globally. Goldman Sachs took part in cheap credit ...

Question 1: Essential features of project financing

In project financing, parties agree to complete a project and to provide the financial resources required to complete the project. It also embodies an agreement between the parties that when the project is completed and starts operations, it will generate sufficient cash to cover its operating and debt service requirements. Besides, it involves assurance that if the project is disrupted, additional funds to restore it will be provided through insurance among other ways. In conventional financing, lenders consider the whole asset portfolio of the borrower to generate cash flows to repay their loans. On the contrary, lenders in project ...

Introduction

The information relayed by financial statements is the mirror through which an entity is viewed by the owners, shareholders, creditors, the regulatory authorities (governments), potential investors and all other stakeholders. The information obtained from these financial statements forms a reliable basis for the interested parties to evaluate the efficiency, profitability, and general performance of the business in a periodic manner, usually annually, semi-annually or quarterly. This paper seeks to examine the usefulness of such financial statements as the income statement, balance sheet and cash flows for Starbucks Corporation. The income statement is an analytical presentation of the total amount ...

Question one

Elcogas is an entire financing project that is expected to become limited after the construction stage. In this project, the lenders such as banks needed a guarantee from the guarantors because the gasification of coal technology was being applied for the first time in a power plant. Additionally, the lenders also wanted a change of law to protect them against the variations in the way the state determines the tariffs of electricity. Regarding the financial arrangements, the project had 35 lenders that include large and small banks in Spain, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom (Elcogas Case Study, 2016). ...

Microenterprises such as small restaurants, landscaping services, and brick stores among others serve a critical role in the economy of a nation. In most cases, micro enterprises may not qualify for big bank loans. It is because of this that intermediary lenders offer them microloans. A microloan is a loan up to $50,000 for small businesses. In the United State, the U.S. Small Business Administration provides funds for the intermediary lenders, usually community-based organizations that have formal structures and experience in leading and technical support. Intermediaries would require collateral and a personal guarantee from the investors. The collateral ...

PART 1:

Using the draw tools in Word, show what happened to the demand for housing by drawing the demand for housing in 2005, 2006, and 2009. This means you draw lines for the demand and supply of housing in 2005, 2006, and 2009 to the supply and demand graph and match what happens to the price in those years with what is show in the chart. Explain what caused demand to change over this period.

The graph below shows the demand of housing in 2005, 2006 and 2009 and how the price fluctuates. The demand for houses rose rapidly during ...

Part 4 and Part 5 Final Paper

Actual changes that are eminent in the expounded Chapter three of ‘A History of Usury and Debts’ entails an in-depth insight of the connection between war, capitalism, Protestants as well as their significance in the development of banking and debts around the world, an ordeal which reflects the current status of financial markets. The author well explains Protestants' connection to usury and debt, and how the selection from the Roman Catholic influenced other themes in the chapter, such as war and capitalism (Geisst 107). Actual changes include the way the three themes related in the previous part is construed ...

Introduction 3

Comparative Financial Performance Analysis of Pepsi and Coca Cola for the Last Two Years (2014 and 2015) through Ratios and their Interpretations 3 Analysis of Profitability Ratios 4 Gross Profit MarginW 4 Net Profit margin 5 Return on Assets 6 Analysis of Solvency Ratios 7 Current Ratio 8 Quick Ratio 9 Analysis of Capital Structure Ratios 10 Debt-to-Equity Ratio 11 Interest Coverage Ratio 12 Examination of Efficiency Ratios 14 Days Sales are Outstanding 14 Days in Inventory 15 Payables Period 16 Findings and Recommendations 17

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Comparative Financial Performance Analysis of Pepsi and Coca Cola Introduction Because of their global ...

Apple Inc. is a USA Technology Company that operates both in the USA and many other parts of the world. The company manufactures and sells computer software and hardware and provides online services. So of the products that the company offers include personal computers, smartphones such as iPads and tablets among many others. The company operates in very many industries, namely electronics, digital distribution, computer hardware and software among others.

Apple External Environment of Apple Company

Technology advancement remains the most important environment for Apple Company in promoting its innovativeness in its production. A good example is the application of the technology is designing and ...

Personal Finance

Personal Finance

Introduction

The economy of the United States impacts personal finance either directly or indirectly. Importantly, the government regulates personal finance through interest rates and taxes. Most taxes are directed to social programs to help the needy. Due to income disparities, citizens opt to acquire credit cards from local banks or other lenders. The credit card allows consumers to spend in advance and keep track of their expenditure. However, those who settle their credit card balance late, pay high-interest rates. The purpose of this paper is to address the role of government in the personal finance. Also, the paper ...

Abstract

Debt covenants have become one of the major issues that affect the operations of the firm. Many scholars have come up with different ways in which they can leverage this problem. There are many theories of corporate governance that try to solve these problems that face managers of financial institutions. Most of these theories defy the debt covenant perspective and the corporate governance problems in relation to how equity and debt holders affect the director’s ability to act in the interests of the providers of capital. Banks as financial intermediaries have special attributes that increase the standard corporate ...

Introduction

The exchange rate has become an integral component of modern economics. Its role stems from its far-reaching effects on the economy of a country, investments, the profitability of firms, and personal finances. Countries have become even more interdependent due to the rapid advancement in communication technologies and the expansion of global trade, which have significantly reduced the geographical distance between both individuals and countries. However, since nations use a broad range of domestic currencies with different values, trading partners must, therefore, rely on currency conversion methods to facilitate global transactions. This paper explores the importance of exchange rate and ...

In the modern industrial world, it is necessary to ascertain the existence of oppressive dependence which indicates that the more perfect economically the country is, the more intensively health balance of its residents is disturbed. One of such implications is obesity which is the excess deposition of fat in the human body. Normally, in healthy male, fat weight should be about 10-20%, and for women – 25-30% of the total body weight. With age, in both sexes, fat mass increases with a decrease of bone and muscle mass which brings about a threat of obesity. According to the World Health ...

Introduction

In 2008, the entire world was rocked by the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis first affected the entire financial system of the United States before then quickly spread globally. The casualties of the crisis included the whole investment banking industry of the US. Other casualties were the US largest insurance company, largest mortgage lender, among other firms in the financial services sector. The US auto industry was severely hit leading to loss of jobs. The US unemployment rate increased by 4.9% points from the third quarter of 2007 to the third quarter of 2009. The ...

Introduction

Money plays a vital role in the determination of income and employment . interest rate are a significant determinant of aggregate spending ad the Federal Reserve which controls the money growth and the interest rates is the first institution to be blamed when the economy of in trouble. Now the question arises what is money.

Money Definition

Money is a medium of exchange. Money is divided into commodity money and token money. To some economist there is difference between commodity money and token money. A commodity money is a medium of exchange which has a commodity value as distinct from a value ...

Financial Accounting

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Computations of the 2014 liquidity ratios for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo

The computations of the 2014 liquidity ratios for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, including the current ratio, accounts receivable turnover, average collection period, inventory turnover, days in inventory and current cash debt coverage, are provided below.

The 2014 liquidity ratios for Coca-Cola and PepsiCo

According to the above-performed analysis, PepsiCo had better liquidity ratios in 2014 comparing to Coca-Cola’s financial performance in this regard. Thus, PepsiCo’s liquidity ratios, such as the current ratio, inventory turnover and current cash debt coverage, are significantly larger than Coca-Cola’s similar financial figures. As a result, PepsiCo’s average collection period, as well as the ...

BUSINESS FINANCING

Introduction Business owners and managers seeking financing encounters an essential decision regarding choice of whether to borrow money or to make use new equity capital. Given that equity and debts have very varied characteristics, each of them has different effect on cash-flow, earnings, and taxes as well as on balance sheet. They also have different impacts on any company`s dilution, leverage as well as a host for other financial metrics by which companies are measured. Lastly, each business financing options presents a different kind of relationship in relation to the financing source. Thus, a company`s plan on ...

Chapter 5 Outline

The chapter begins by explaining that despite usury being considered as an execrable sin against human, it continued to be famous in the United States and British. It is apparent that in a population of 30,000 people, more than 8000 individuals embraced usury or took part in the practice (Geisst 192). The reason is that the necessity of doing business using borrowed money became frequent due to trade. Besides, the chapter offers a detailed explanation on the sophisticated debt revolution that emerged in the 19th century. This made people support industrialization so as to help people to avoid ...

The book titled “When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management”, written by one of the famous financial journalists, Roger Lowenstein gives an account of how the 1998 collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a hedge fund panicked the financial markets . The author explains in his book about how banks relied on various brand names that have been established LTCM through its partners and how lenders were ignorant to the assets and strategies of LTCM. He illustrates several examples that suggest the models, strategies and trades used by LTCM, thereby offering valid reasons as to how ...

Obesity is an accumulation of fat in the body which leads to the appearance of overweight. This fat is stored in the fat depots of the body – in subcutaneous adipose tissue in and around the internal organs of human body. Modern science explains the emergence of obesity as follows: if the energy coming into the body with food is more than is consumed by the body, such energy which is in excess is converted into fat. In developed societies, the main causes of obesity are overeating and a sedentary lifestyle. To put on extra weight is rather easy, but ...

Question 1

Financial markets are the channels dealing with funding of money in case of a deficit on the borrowers in the enterprise by direct financing such as selling them as securities. Central bank regulations and government intervention help in the control of monetary policy and interest rates in the economic markets. Having full control over monetary policies will ensure that inflation rates are reduced. As discussed in class, a reduction in monetary policy sinceJanuary 2016 had a great impact on the euro zone currency as investors in the foreign market increased their purchases due to the currency protection not to ...

The late 1950s marked the start of the Chinese immigration to the British North American regions, which are the present-day Canada. No colonies within the east and west of the British North American regions including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and the United Province of Canada had immigration restrictions. It is also important to note from the outset that the Hudson’s Bay Company controlled vast areas of the British North American regions, where the main residents were the First Nations people. The Chinese immigrants faced various challenges before, during, and after immigrating to Canada. Various ...

Global Financial Crisis in the US

Introduction It was hard for the economists, professional analysts and policymakers among other players in the financial industry to foresee the crisis in the US mortgage lending industry in 2007 that resulted in the world's worst economic recession in two years' time (Sher and Iyanatul 2010). Initially, there was a housing bubble characterized by high house prices, low-interest rates, more support for subprime mortgage and increased speculation by the buyers (Acharya and Schnabl 2010). Eventually, there were decline of house market prices, increased lending rates and increased default and foreclosures by the mortgagors (John 2009). Notably, by mid-2008 the ...

Definition of the microcredit

Microcredit is the main tool of the microfinance concept, which is considered to be invented by the Professor Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. As it is stated on the Crammen Bank web page, a microcredit is a program of small loans, offered to the poorest people so that they could generate income through self-employment projects (Grameen Bank, 2012). Microcredit can be also defined as a small loan to poorer households or small entrepreneurs, that lack steady employment and a verifiable credit history. In most cases microcredit does not require any collateral, as its target audience ...

Introduction

The decision as to the form of business structure that one chooses depends on quite a number of things. There are different legal requirements in New Zealand for running different forms of business structures. For instance, there is a minimum number of people of people required to start a private limited company. There are also tax implications in whichever form of business structure that an investor chooses. For instance, for partnerships, only partners are taxed on their share of partnership profits earned (Collier, 2003). On the other hand, limited liability companies are taxed at a corporate tax rate on ...

Three agencies dealing with credit reporting that house my credit history are, Trans Union, Experian, and Equifax.

The process of disputing information in a credit profile is to inform the credit reporting agency through writing on the information that has been thought or considered as inaccurate. The sample dispute letter can be used then accompanied by copies of the documents that will back your position. Apart from bearing the name and correct address, items thought to have a dispute should be clearly identifiable with clear facts and why the information is disputed. FICO score is a form of credit score that is used to come up with a credit report that is used by lenders to ...

Economic transformation in Africa is tied to the colonial legacy. The spectre of colonialism haunts growth and development efforts. The African economy as it is known today has its roots in the colonial exploitation and appropriation of resources. Colonialism introduced capitalism with its idea of the free market but this free market benefited the colonizing nations, leaving unprecedented levels of poverty throughout the continent. Understanding the history of colonial primitive accumulation is critical to understanding the economic realities of present day Africa, in particular, the continent’s insistence on trading with countries like China. This paper seeks to explore ...

Juhudi Kilimo is an enterprise that provides technical assistance and asset financing to medium and small sixed agro-businesses and smaller farmers throughout Kenya. Juhudi operations are mainly throughout the rural areas of Kenya. This gives smaller farmers the access to the resources and tools they need in order to succeed. Juhudi Kilimo invests in startups companies and work with them in order to make them major participates in the market. This helps develop the opportunities and networks for smaller farmers throughout rural Kenya. Juhudi uses a comprehensive approach in order to create long term gains in regards to productivity ...