Kgalagadi farmers want a 200 km fence along the Molopo River to keep foot-and-mouth out and the EU beef market open. The proposal reads as a measure of how much that market is worth.
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Farming
How Israel became the Most Advanced Country in Agriculture
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, early settlers who decided to settle in the lands of Israel faced a huge challenge: how to farm in conditions of sweltering heat and minimal rainfall. The land was catastrophically barren, but the desire to make this area...
Congo’s food economy: 80 million fertile hectares, 10 per cent farmed, markets distant
Congo has 80 million arable hectares, 10 per cent farmed, while 27 million people face acute food insecurity. February 2022 data show export crops growing and staples constrained by logistics, so the value lies in the supply chain.
The Nitrogen Fertilizers Gap: Russian Sanctions, Africa, and Global Food Economy
Sanctions, or talk of sanctions, toward Russia create opportunities for the African Agricultural Economy, especially fertilizer production amongst other things. Throwing threats and executing them are two different things, and what lies between must be an impact...
Congo’s food economy in July 2021: the crop is not the constraint, the road is
Congo’s farm sector employs most workers but produces a fifth of GDP. Roads, storage and fuel costs, not rainfall, explain why a country with this potential still has 27.3 million acutely food insecure.
Congo’s PICAGL has spent $37m of $150m: the slow arithmetic of farm delivery
The World Bank says its $150m Congo farm project has disbursed about $37m, reaching 74,000 households with cassava material. The next test is infrastructure in South Kivu and Tanganyika, and whether harvests find buyers.
Beefy Exports: Opening Up the Beef and Meat by Products Industry
According to FAO, the world has 1.468 billion head of cattle, and Botswana has 2.5 million of that herd, and it is estimated to account for less than 2% of Botswana's GDP. On the other hand, Botswana is a cattle country dating back to pre-colonialism, and its...
The Women’s Farming Syndicate
The Women’s Farming Syndicate (WFS), founded in 2011, is an agribusiness community with a diverse membership from professionals to grass roots; a business constituency that has grown to over 5,000 women entrepreneurs across the country with key projects and programmes...
Sidella Trading and the Sesame Value Chain in Zimbabwe
Farmers in Chiredzi district did not grow sesame under Sidella Trading contract in 2016/17 season; they only grew it in 2014/15. Some of the farmers stopped producing sesame because they failed to secure a market since Sidella Trading did not come back after maturity...