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Zambia raised its maize floor price to K347/50kg off a record 5.1M-tonne harvest. Malawi's ADMARC is meanwhile selling maize at wildly inconsistent prices. Here's why.
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Staff Writer • Jul 27, 2026
The IFC is preparing to support Ethiopia's first privately owned fertiliser plant, a shift that could reshape input access for the country's smallholder farmers.
Nigerians in the UK are organising to shift remittance money into commercial farms and agri-real estate back home, with a formal 'Farm Estates' launch planned for August 2026.
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African ministers are backing a new push to build an integrated continental livestock market under AfCFTA, following the African Pastoral Markets Forum in Addis Ababa.
South Africa's 2025/26 maize crop is forecast at 17.3 million tonnes, its largest grain and oilseed harvest on record, according to the Crop Estimates Committee.
While Zambia and South Africa post record maize harvests, flooding in Mozambique and drought in Angola are cutting into the region's overall 2025/26 cereal output.
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Nutrition experts are urging Nigeria to make it compulsory for bouillon cubes to carry folic acid and vitamin B12, calling it a low-cost fix for widespread hidden hunger.
Kenya's Cereal Millers Association has launched a consumer campaign encouraging households to choose fortified flour and pulses, building on the country's decades-old fortification programme.
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Nigeria has begun distributing 2,000 tractors and 9,000+ implements under RHAMP, a lease-to-own mechanisation programme expected to reach over a million farmers.
Nigeria's First Lady launched the 2026 farming season in Niger State with 250 tractors, combine harvesters and 150,000 bags of fertiliser distributed to local farmers.
Nearly 60% of Africa's population will soon be under 25. A wave of young, tech-savvy agripreneurs is turning that demographic wave into investable businesses.
Staff Writer • Jul 26, 2026
Private capital has long avoided African agriculture over perceived risk. Blended finance, mixing public and private money, is changing that calculation for a growing list of investors.
African diaspora communities send home tens of billions of dollars a year. Increasingly, that money isn't just supporting families — it's funding commercial farms, cold storage and agri-real estate.
The African Continental Free Trade Area is reshaping how food moves across the continent. Here's what the agreement means for agribusiness investors watching intra-African trade.
Up to 40% of Africa's food is lost before it ever reaches a buyer, mostly for lack of refrigeration. Investors are starting to see that gap as a rare, fixable, high-return opportunity.
Exporting raw cocoa, cashews and cassava leaves most of the profit overseas. Here's why agro-processing has become the single most attractive entry point for agribusiness investors in Africa.
Africa's food and agriculture economy is racing toward a $1 trillion valuation by 2030. Here's what is driving the surge, and why the window for early investors is closing fast.
Cattle can move again between South Africa's Western Cape and Zimbabwe — but only under strict new certification, and only from that one province. It's a small, cautious step back from one of the region's most disruptive animal disease years.
Staff Writer • Jul 22, 2026
Rwanda's national school feeding programme reaches nearly 4.8 million students. This week, officials and NGO partners are focused on a harder problem: making sure those meals actually solve malnutrition, not just hunger
Nigeria has scrapped import duties on tractors and harvesters entirely. Ghana is rolling out thousands of new machines through farmer service centres. Africa's mechanization push just picked up real momentum.
