Economy
An insight into the economy in the African agriculture sector.
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Zimbabwe retains 7.4% growth target on improved farm output
Zimbabwe’s Treasury is sticking to its economic growth estimate of 7.4%, even after the nation’s president said the projection would…
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Cameroon tomato farmers count losses to wild weather and lockdown
Tomato farmer Gregory Ngwana is used to good years. But this season, wild weather – too little rainfall and then…
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Nigeria stops forex access for corn imports
Nigeria’s central bank has blocked access to foreign exchange for corn imports as it seeks to boost local farming output,…
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Zimbabwe’s evicted white farmers offered $3.5 billion payout
Zimbabwe’s white commercial farmers, who were violently evicted from their land in a series of invasions that began two decades…
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Locust, floods and virus set Uganda for slowest year since 1986
Uganda’s economy will probably expand at the slowest pace in more than three decades this year due to the fallout…
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Farmers turn to commercial banks as South African lender stalls
South African farmers are increasingly turning to commercial lenders to top up their working capital as the Land and Agricultural…
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Kenya’s herb farmers crushed by virus blow to exports
For many farmers in Kenya, a bout of prolonged rain and flooding, as the East African nation has experienced since…
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BBC expands Follow the Food series with special content on feeding the world during the pandemic
BBC Global News has announced a special nine-part series of Follow the Food focusing on the challenges of feeding the…
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