European capital moves into Malawi’s agricultural finance gap
EIB Global’s €7.5 million financing agreement with Centenary Bank Malawi is small compared with sovereign infrastructure loans, but it targets one of Malawi’s most persistent growth constraints: the shortage of suitable credit for small farmers and micro...
European capital moves into Malawi’s agricultural finance gap
EIB Global’s €7.5 million financing agreement with Centenary Bank Malawi is small compared with sovereign infrastructure loans, but it targets one of Malawi’s most persistent growth constraints: the shortage of suitable credit for small farmers and micro...
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The pitch is a complete value chain: Chinese companies planting, breeding and processing African crops into goods worth more than the raw harvest. The recorded...
Agricultural training: A yield story wearing a diplomatic suit
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China-Africa agricultural training is usually filed under diplomacy. The farmer who attends a course files it under something more concrete: whether the maize stands...
European capital moves into Malawi’s agricultural finance gap
EIB Global’s €7.5 million facility with Centenary Bank targets small farmers and micro agribusinesses, converting European development capital into local agricultural credit.
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Acting Minister Dikoloti has told Digawana farmers that strict FMD protocols are essential to regain Zone 11’s green status within 3–6 months and protect
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Chinese firms in African agriculture are pitched as a farm-to-processing story, yet most of the recorded investment still sits at the farm gate, where the value chain is thinnest.
Agricultural training: A yield story wearing a diplomatic suit
The training programmes are read as diplomacy, but the figures that matter are agronomic, and a farmer measures the result in tonnes per hectare, not in communiques.
Demonstration centres: Where China’s agronomy meets Africa’s yield gap
The centres are presented as platforms for productivity, yet a demonstration plot and a smallholder field are not the same place, and the distance between them is where the real story sits.
A tropical agriculture centre: research as the slow infrastructure of trade
China is building a centre for tropical agricultural science with Africa. Laboratories rarely make news, but the seeds and methods they produce may outlast any single trade deal.
Grow, process, sell: the business chain Africa keeps leaving incomplete
China’s pledges span planting, processing and trade. The middle link, turning crops into finished goods on African soil, is the one the continent most needs and most often misses.
Quarantine and paperwork: the unglamorous keys to Africa’s China market
Market access into China is won less by handshakes than by inspection protocols. Twenty-two export agreements have opened doors, but only for the producers who can meet the standards behind them.
Agricultural Modernisation: The Summit Pledge Africa Has Heard Before
From the 2006 FOCAC to the 2024 Beijing plan, China keeps promising experts, demonstration centres and modernised farms. The repetition is the point – and the problem.
Keeping Kids Fed: Schools Navigate Food Supply Disruptions
The school feeding scheme is holding up but short on suppliers, the council reports – and that gap is an open contract for local farms and logistics firms.
Beans, Samp and Schedules: Kanye Keeps School Meals Moving Despite Delays
Kanye council moved to fix supply shortages in its school feeding programme, keeping beans, samp and the rest of the menu reaching learners despite delays.
Schools Keep Meals Flowing Amid Supply Chain Snags
Kanye District councillors said the school feeding programme runs fairly despite delays in beans and samp supplies, with P6.5 million budgeted.
Congo’s food bill is a freight bill: Kinshasa transport costs outran food by 4 points
Kinshasa food prices were 8.4 per cent higher in late August 2025 than a year earlier, while transport costs rose 12.8 per cent. A steady franc points to logistics, not currency, as the pressure.
From Egg to Market: The Business Timelines of Southern Africa’s Poultry Sector
For the poultry farmer, the clock starts not when the bird leaves the shell, but when the egg first feels the warmth of incubation. The length of that journey - 16 days for a quail, 46 days for an ostrich - can determine how quickly capital returns, how often the...
Congo’s food economy in July 2025: a maize glut in the south, hunger in the east
In July 2025 Congo held a maize glut in the south-east and acute hunger in the east. The BCC digest, WFP and Bankable data show the gap is logistics, storage and money, not soil.