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On-the-ground business intelligence in Zimbabwe, since July 2017.
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SADC's farmers grow much of what the region eats, yet a significant share of processed food on regional shelves still arrives from outside the bloc. That contradiction — agricultural abundance sitting alongside thin domestic processing capacity — is the backdrop...
A maize farmer in one SADC member state and a miller sourcing grain across the border are, in principle, operating in the same climatic system. In practice, the seasonal outlook that tells the farmer whether to plant early or hold back is rarely the same document, in...
Agriculture employs more people across SADC than any other sector, yet it was not named once as a distinct priority in the fifteen-point action matrix trade ministers reaffirmed in Gaborone this week. That is the contradiction worth sitting with. A generic commitment...