Category: Agriculture
Russia-Ukraine Geopolitics creates Opportunity for SA Agri-Commodities
All war affects geopolitics and has a direct impact on global economics by reshaping demand and supply. From an international trade perspective, the current Russia-Ukraine [Read More…]
The Coffee Economy
(Zambia) – Coffee, just like copper, is a Zambian economic strength, that, if fully exploited, will not only grow the economy, but carve a space [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
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 [Read More…]
