One man’s meat is another men’s poison. This phrase came so close to its literal meaning in the donkey business recently established in Africa. While many are grossed out by just the thought of eating donkey meat, some consider it a delicacy. This phenomenon only...
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Farming
SADC regional security continuity — farm-to-market implications for regional operators
Displacement, not drought, is the immediate threat to farm output in northern Mozambique. The insurgency in Cabo Delgado has pushed people off land they would otherwise be planting and harvesting, and the extraordinary summit SADC heads of state held in Maputo on 23...
Global Pork Demand and the Tswana Swine
The Pig is known for producing the pork Ribs, Whole Carcass, Bacon, Polony, Sausages, Chops, Belly, Fillet, Ham, Smoked products, Leg, Neck, Salami, Shoulder, Gammon, Knuckles, Rhime, trotters, and the Frank just to name a few popular cuts that has shaped a global...
SADC manufactured export target — agrifood value-chain opportunity and what comes next
Agro-processing is one of only three value chains SADC has named as a priority under its restated push to raise manufactured exports to 50 percent of the bloc's total exports by 2030, from under 20 percent today. That is a meaningful distinction for farmers and...
SADC climate strategy alignment — agrifood value-chain opportunity and what comes next
Agriculture employs more people across SADC than any other sector and absorbs more of the region's climate risk than any other sector too — drought cuts maize yields, erratic rainfall disrupts planting calendars, and heat stress affects livestock and horticulture...
Sowing Seeds of Success in East and Southern Africa
The seed industry in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) region is among the best performing agricultural sub-sectors in some member states comprising 21 countries. An extract from a report titled “A Regional Perspective on the Development of...
RISDP 2020-2030 across SADC – farm-to-market implications for SADC firms and investors
SADC has just adopted a ten-year regional strategy that will shape food systems across sixteen member states, and agriculture does not appear as one of its five named headline pillars. For a farming and food-systems readership, that omission is not a signal that...
First Breeding Summit for Dairy Farmers in Zambia
Without a perfect breed, dairy farming does not make sense anymore, and Zambia has moved a step toward world class dairy farming as dairy farmers begun using technology for breeding intelligence at the end of 2019. Here is an extract of a briefing from ADT Project...
40th SADC Summit across SADC — agrifood value-chain opportunity for regional operators
Agriculture was not named once, as a distinct sector, anywhere in the communiqué SADC's heads of state and government issued after their 40th Ordinary Summit on 17 August 2020. Yet the summit approved a ten-year regional development plan whose first pillar is...