Southern Africa
Comprehensive, insightful and in-depth articles and news on agriculture, and developments from around Southern Africa.
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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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Rise Against Hunger Africa partners with business to support communities during Covid-19
Rise Against Hunger Africa has partnered with local Cargill businesses to pack and distribute over 250,000 meals in KwaZulu Natal…
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U.S. farming body and Zambian firm partner aim to boost crop yields
An American non-profit organisation has launched a $40 million joint venture with one of Zambia’s top farm suppliers to boost…
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South Africa’s Tongaat to sell eSwatini sugarcane farm for $21 million
Indebted South African sugar producer Tongaat Hulett said on Wednesday it would sell a sugarcane farm in eSwatini to the…
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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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South Africa’s Tongaat, Barloworld in deadlock over starch business deal
South Africa’s heavily indebted sugar producer Tongaat Hulett is in a deadlock over the sale of its starch business to…
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Farmvest seals moringa contract, seeks partnership with local farmers and private sector
Farmvest Agricapital a SA based company with Operations in Zimbabwe and South Africa announced that they have sealed a 5-year…
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Climate-smart cassava gets new use in Zambia
To deal with drier conditions brought by a shifting climate, farmer Pamela Nyirenda last year shifted to growing drought-hardy cassava,…
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