Agriculture requires a great deal of water. In fact, it uses 70% of the world’s freshwater supplies. For centuries farmers have found ingenious ways of making the best of the water available, but ...
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By Grace GoodrichWith fertile river valleys, expansive coastal lowlands and the prolific Zambezi River as a source of irrigation, Mozambique is considered a mecca for crop cultivation, with climatic ...
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By Peter Setou Chief Executive of the Vumelana Advisory Fund Land Reform - 2020 marked exactly 368 years since the displacement of indigenous people from their land following the colonisation ...
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Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB Agri-Business As widely expected, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) kept the repo rate steady at a record low of 3.5% in its first ...
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A woman sells maize at the market in Sidameika Tura, Arsi Negele, Ethiopia. (Photo: Peter Lowe/CIMMYT) By: Innocent Mhangarai The majority of households and business people have made ...
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By : Dr. Nimrod Israely - Founder and CEO - Biofeed Ltd *In my articles, I address general phenomena. Mention of a country/continent is used for illustration purposes only. Not many CEOs of ...
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A community without a collective revelation will not grow or make progress in life (see picture above). By Innocent Mhangarai Resilience building efforts in communities have borne tangible ...
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Kenya’s agriculture has beaten the odds of a difficult 2020 to end on a high, having registered one of the best growth trajectories across key segments in a long time. Indeed these fortunes are ...
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"Investors will refrain from investing not because of low profitability, but due to high risk." *in my articles, I address general phenomena. Mention of a country/continent is for illustration ...
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South Africa’s agriculture GDP still came out impressive in the 3rd quarter 2020 at 18.5% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) seasonally adjusted annualised with a 0.6 percentage point contribution, according ...
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