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On-the-ground business intelligence in Zimbabwe, since July 2017.
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A smallholder farmer in one SADC member state deciding whether to plant for the domestic market or for regional export is, in effect, pricing three separate risks at once: the weather, the road, and the border. Meteorological forecasting tells her whether the rains...
An Exchange Control amendment reclassifies Zimbabwe’s tobacco buyers as exporters, unlocking offshore credit and tying surrender to net export proceeds.
SI 23 of 2026 lets Zimbabwe’s cotton merchants tap offshore and on-shore credit for seed-cotton purchases, with USD prices and RBZ-set settlement ratios.
From the 2006 FOCAC to the 2024 Beijing plan, China keeps promising experts, demonstration centres and modernised farms. The repetition is the point – and the problem.
The school feeding scheme is holding up but short on suppliers, the council reports – and that gap is an open contract for local farms and logistics firms.
When BCL’s mine closed, Selebi Phikwe lost its economic spine. A citrus farm now employing over 300 workers is one attempt to put a different engine in its place.
Kanye council moved to fix supply shortages in its school feeding programme, keeping beans, samp and the rest of the menu reaching learners despite delays.
Councils have begun registering households hit by foot-and-mouth disease, building the record that any credible relief or compensation must rest on.
Kanye District councillors said the school feeding programme runs fairly despite delays in beans and samp supplies, with P6.5 million budgeted.