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 Modernisation: The Summit Pledge Africa Has Heard Before
Farming - Food Systems & Sustainability · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Read the China-Africa summit communiques in sequence and agriculture returns like a chorus: experts dispatched, demonstration centres built, villages modernised,...
Keeping Kids Fed: Schools Navigate Food Supply Disruptions
Farming - Agri-Finance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A school meal is a supply chain that cannot miss a day. When the produce does not arrive, children do not eat, and there is no catching up tomorrow. The council reported in June 2026 that the school...
Beans, Samp and Schedules: Kanye Keeps School Meals Moving Despite Delays
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A school meal is a logistics problem dressed as a welfare promise. The promise fails the moment a supplier slips, a delivery is late, or a store room empties - and the learner, not...
Schools Keep Meals Flowing Amid Supply Chain Snags
Farming - Food Systems & Sustainability · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A school feeding programme is judged less by its budget than by whether a plate reaches a child on time. In Kanye District, councillors reported in June 2026 that the feeding...
Ethiopia’s Coffee Riches Brew More Than Just a Cup
Coffee lovers, raise your mugs! While your morning latte might hail from distant lands, the true coffee connoisseur knows the origin story begins in Ethiopia. This East African nation boasts a heritage intertwined with the very bean, and sipping Ethiopian coffee is...
Navigating FMD Zones: Authorities Outline Permitted Goods
The government clarified in June 2023 which goods may cross foot-and-mouth disease zones, with digital permits proposed to streamline compliance for farmers and traders.
Farmers Demand Compensation for Cattle Culled in FMD Battle
Makgadikgadi farmers sought compensation for cattle lost to culling and movement restrictions, underscoring the cost of disease control falling on the herd owner. [TK: widely reported, uncited.]
Vaccination Wins Over Mass Culling in Foot-and-Mouth Response
Veterinarians chose to vaccinate rather than mass-cull foot-and-mouth-infected livestock, relieving farmers and raising cold-chain demand. The shift moves the cost from destruction to logistics.
Post-Mining Pivot: Selebi Phikwe Citrus Project Seeks Expansion
After BCL’s copper-mine closure, Selebi Phikwe’s farming and tourism push includes a citrus project employing over 300 workers and now seeking expansion. A mining town learns to grow.
Clarity on Goods Allowed Through FMD Zones Reduces Trade Disruption
The Department of Veterinary Services listed goods such as hides and processed meats that may move across foot-and-mouth zones, easing confusion. Clarity, not new rules, reduced the disruption.
Border Fence Demanded as Farmers Fear Losing EU Beef Market
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.
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...