By: Nico Groenewald, head of Agribusiness at Standard Bank The outbreak of Covid-19 across the globe is presenting a unique set of challenges to industries and causing severe disruption to global value chains. This is especially true with respect to agriculture, and there are questions and ...

By Innocent Mhangarai     :  Most small scale farmers experience post-harvest loses season after season due to lack of proper handling facilities and this has hindered progress in Sub-Saharan countries agricultural sector. When produce is lost, resources allocated in the production process will be ...

The African Development Bank's (AfDB) has signed a $200 million Soft Commodity Finance Facility agreement with the Export Trading Group. The agreement comes as part of AfDBs strong commitment to promote agriculture in Africa. In a statement from the bank released late last week, the facility will ...