Africa has come a long way, in the post-COVID era, in boosting the morale around local production investments among local and foreign companies. But more is needed.
Kenya’s irrigation development is more advanced than official records show because they exclude what some farmers are doing.
A third of South Africa’s farming income depends on irrigation. Disruptions in power supply put huge chunks of the country’s agricultural fortunes at risk.
As much as 31% of grant beneficiaries engage in informal work to ‘grow’ their income.
The Sudanese crisis is the culmination of three decades of contentious energy politics among rival elites.
Children working on family farms is often mistaken for harmful child labour.
Nigeria’s Central Bank didn’t have an adoption strategy for its digital currency. It was a missed opportunity.
Fuel subsidy removal can benefit workers and poor Nigerians, if the process is carefully managed and implemented.
Debt forgiveness isn’t the answer. History is replete with examples of countries that are serial defaulters.
The relationship between small-scale irrigation and food security, diet quality, and nutrition is growing.
South Africa faces the possibility of record electricity shortages and catastrophic scenarios such as a complete grid collapse.
The current focus by extra-regional actors is an elite project that undermines a maritime security strategy that would benefit the African people.
Most farmworkers were not even aware that the farm they worked on was Fairtrade certified.
Thirty years ago the World Bank recognised that its position was untenable. It put in place mechanisms to make the bank more accountable to ordinary people.
Domestic resource mobilisation cannot be achieved by over-taxing the livelihoods of the most vulnerable workers in the informal sector.
