Despite some headwinds, the positive agri export environment is likely to continue in 2022
While it’s not quite at the high level it was this time last year, the contribution of South Africa’s agri sector to the country’s...
From Poverty To Wealth: How Farmers In Diverse Rural Communities Doubled Their Income In...
By: Dr. Nimrod Israely
"We look and sound different, but under the skin, our mechanisms are similar."
DIVERSITY IS THE PREMISE
People approach me, saying, "I appreciate...
The Risks and Consequences of Smallholders’ “Excess Protection”
By: Dr. Nimrod Israely
"Poverty is limited by zero income, Prosperity by none.”
Some social and business systems work improperly because those who lead them care...
Latest black economic empowerment conditions will hurt family farmers
The Department of Agriculture recently announced the latest requirements of the Perishable Products Export Control Board (PPECB). The requirements require, among others, that export...
Media statement accompanying the results of an independent economic impact assessment (EIA) of a...
Background:
During 2018, land expropriation without compensation (EWC) dominated the public discourse in South Africa to such an extent that it was declared the Word...
Unchanged interest rates bode well for Agric sector
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business
From an agriculture perspective, unchanged rates bode well for the sector as it is grappling...
DOES LESS (farmers) MEAN MORE (success) FOR THE STATE?
THREE LEVELS OF AGRICULTURE
Export, and in very big countries (e.g., India and China) internal distribution to premium markets, is the fastest and most sustainable...
Getting women in the driver’s seat of Africa’s agribusiness revolution
by Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya
Monica Musonda, CEO of Zambian food processing company Java Foods , certainly faced hurdles in her rise to the top,...
Part 1: More money into African agriculture and on the contrary, more hunger for...
Year in year out, Grants, DFI funds & Private Equity funds flow into Sub-Saharan African Agriculture space. From a discussion paper by Husmann, Christine...
The Transformation Plan For The Agro-Sector Surprises Everyone With Its Simplicity
By: Dr. Nimrod Israely
I arrived in this African village for yet another meeting with farmers. I see them sitting outside in the shade of...