Financing is available to farmers. What’s in contention is whether what’s available helps farmers enter the industry, expand and grow.
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Small-scale farmers find it difficult to commercialise and add value to the food chain.
It’s important to look at the whole value chain in the plastics economy, starting with design of products that can be reused and recycled.
The cooperation should strengthen institutions and rally private entities to fund public projects.
What’s needed is a prioritisation of the health and medicinal values of the food that’s consumed in African countries.
Although COVID-19 measures have had a negative impact on food supply in Nigeria, there are other factors responsible for the dramatic rise in food prices.
South Africa’s food system is dominated by big firms, leaving small businesses to supply localised and under-served markets, and provide rural employment. It needs to be inclusive and diverse.
African countries must take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact to accelerate industrialisation and intra-regional trade, and improve infrastructure.
Globalisation does not look so clever when everyone wants the same medical equipment.
Uganda needs to boost manufacturing and exports to realise the ambitions listed in its social and economic development plan.
The seed industry in sub-Saharan Africa suffers from many challenges. India, which has one of the biggest seed markets in the world, offers some lessons on how these challenges could be overcome.
Australia is facing increasingly stiff competition from developed economies all vying for a share of the growth pie in the East and South Asian region, where Australia has integrated its value chain activities…
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