In the last 12 months, food security has been under serious threat from devastating swarms of locusts, destroying crops from East Africa to the Arabian Gulf. With experts warning of a “rolling emergency”1 that could endanger harvests across the regions for the rest of the year, governments and ...

Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB Against the backdrop of a contracting overall economy with South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) for 2020 forecast to decline by over 8% year-on-year (y/y), there is a silver lining in the agricultural sector outcomes for the next season. ...

Bernard DUPONT/Wikimedia Commons The government of Namibia needs an estimated US $2m to contain the locust outbreak in the Zambezi region. The outbreak of the African migratory red locust was reported on 12 August 2020 at Muzi, Namiyundu, lvilivizi, Lusese, Ihaha, Nakabolelwa, Masikili, ...

Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB Agri-Business After cutting the repo rate by 300 basis points so far this year, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) kept the rate unchanged at a record low of 3.5% in September 2020.The SARB considered risks to both growth and ...

By: Levi Letsoko Growing up in an agricultural setting along with years of service accumulated in a corporate finance environment are two of the biggest contributors that influenced Tshepo Kgopa’s transition from a subsistent to a smallholder farming business, according to the P and T ...

Image courtesy of  CNBC Africa .  The African Development Bank returns as a top-tier partner of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) – Africa’s largest agriculture conference – to be held online for the first time from 8-11 September 2020, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The tenth ...

Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, measures have been taken in an attempt to curb the pandemic: lockdowns and economic shutdowns. Kenya is trying to find a solution to feeding its population. A percentage of the population is facing malnutrition. The Kenyan government is trying to keep the ...

The four-day digital event is to provide a platform for valuable business contacts between leading global manufacturers and top buyers from the African agrofood & plastprintpack industry fairtrade , the Germany based organiser behind the leading agrofood & plastprintpack trade shows in ...

Selecting the right valve goes beyond understanding the function it needs to serve. It’s also important to factor in cost efficiency, durability and maintenance considerations. In some cases, according to Lionel Maasdorp, MD at Allmech, leading South African manufacturer of boilers and supplier of ...

The 50 finalists were selected from over 22,000 applications all over Africa, representing twenty-one African countries, half are female, and work in 18 sectors like agriculture, AI, e-commerce, fashion, healthcare, renewable energy and ICT The 2020 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) ...