MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation Loans $113k to Société Sénégalaise des Filières Alimentaires (SFA) for Rice-storage Facility in Senegal

The Grameen Credit Agricole (GCA) Foundation, whose head office is in Luxembourg, recently issued a loan of EUR 100,000 (USD 113,000) to Société Sénégalaise des Filières Alimentaires (SFA) to finance a rice storage facility. SFA buys rice from 1,500 farmers in the Senegal River Valley; processes it into