wes dean's List: Agriculture Investments

• household biogas technology
• land tenure security activities

• marshland cropping

• water and land use management
• including both marshland and hillside irrigation; and (iv) soil and water conservation.

• Many Africans still keep most of their savings in livestock, stockpiles of goods for trading, grain, jewellery and other concrete assets
• Data are limited but some experts think that as much as 80 per cent of all household wealth in rural Africa is in non-financial form.
• Rwanda about half a million savings passbook accounts, with an average account size of $57, added up to almost $40 mn in 2001
• After the government of Ghana “liberalized” the banking sector, the Standard Trust Bank branch in Ghana, now United Bank of Africa, introduced a “zero-deposit” account, allowing people to
• Benin in the 1990s, the government introduced rural savings and loan institutions that aimed to better serve the poor

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