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...
Congo’s food bill is a freight bill: Kinshasa transport costs outran food by 4 points
With the franc steady all year, the rise in Kinshasa food prices is about roads and risk, not money. By Kanisa Magazine · August 2025 Food in Kinshasa cost 8.4 per cent more in the third week of August 2025 than in the same week of 2024. Transport cost 12.8 per cent...
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
Southern maize halved in price while eastern staples climbed, and the road explains the gap. By Kanisa Magazine · July 2025 Congo's farm economy closed July 2025 pulling in two directions at once. In the south-east, maize that traders paid 100,000 francs a sack for at...
Cocoa is booming, coffee has slumped, and nearly 28 million Congolese lack enough food
Export crops follow world prices while staples depend on roads, and the east pays the most. By Kanisa Magazine · June 2025 Congo's cocoa is exported at a pace 39 per cent above last year, its coffee at a pace 73 per cent below, and 28 million people face acute food...
Ariston Holdings: The Farming Kingdom
Ariston business interests span a variety of crops including tea, macadamia, banana, apples, peaches, potatoes, tomatoes, peas, maize, soya beans and it has poultry and beef cattle. The operations of the tea growing units are fully integrated with the Blended Tea...
The Agriconomy of South Africa
South Africa is a diverse agricultural economy made up of 40,000 commercial farms according to the recently published Census of Commercial Agriculture (CoCA) of 2017 Report. An agricultural powerhouse that feeds Africa, its economic health affects many other countries...
Funding Farmer Stella: The Complexity of Agri-Financing in Zimbabwe
(Zimbabwe) - Meet Stella Masukume, in the middle of her field of cabbages almost ready for the market. She is a farmer in Nyabira, a farming community just outside Harare on your way to Chinhoyi. She grows vegetables, maize, beans, tobacco and chickens, with ability...