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 meeting of 2021. Although the inflation outlook remains subdued below the mid-point of the 3% to ...

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 attributable to a fairly good weather and unprecedented coordination in delivery of inputs and ...

"The agriculture sector is among the most vulnerable. Agriculture is important not only for food security issues but also for inter-regional food integration," African Development Bank Director of Macroeconomic Policy, Forecasting and Research, Hanan Morsy, said during a news conference on the ...

Now is the Time for Partnership to Transform Africa's Cocoa Industry Recent studies criticising the global chocolate industry for exploitative practices have concerned ethical consumers. Cocoa farmers only earn about 6% of the chocolate industry's total revenues. Leading chocolate companies ...

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 to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA). Again, field and horticulture crops, as well as animal ...

Abeco Tanks is making waves in the African water storage market as they announce having just completed their biggest tank in Africa. The tank - equivalent to two tennis courts in surface area - holds a whopping 5.8 Million litres of water and together with a 3 million litre supplementary tank ...

How Africa can become the breadbasket of the world. Of course, it is not possible to make sweeping judgements about Africa, both in terms of its tertiary extension and its cultural differences, this make it difficult to find individual causes for the current situation. Surely someone from ...

The 2nd in a series of special webinars from IsDB and ITFC explored how 4IR solutions can transform supply chains and boost the flow of agricultural trade across borders The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) (Agriculture Division) in ...

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) again left the repo rate unchanged at a record low of 3.5% in its November 2020 meeting. The SARB’s inflation forecast indicates that it will be below the mid-point of the 3% to 6% range due to the slow economic recovery. This implies limited upside for ...

On International Day of Rural Women, BKT takes us on a unique journey into one of the most historic Italian companies in agro-machinery industry.Here is the first-hand testimony of Rossella Guizzardi and her daughter Alice,from Meccanica Guizzardi in Granarolo (Northern Italy). Gender equality ...