Africa’s Coffee Farmers Are Losing Billions to Exploitation
Millions of Africa’s coffee farmers have slipped into abject poverty caused by poor prices which are currently barely enough to cover production costs while the rest of the coffee supply
TOMRA FOOD OPENS NEW REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN LATIN AMERICA
New premises, with Customer Experience Center and Regional Training Hub, will strengthen the customer support provided across Latin America by TOMRA Food, Compac, and BBC Technologies TOMRA Food has opened
How to install poultry processing plants in Covid-19 times?
More than ever, poultry processors around the world have to guarantee their production or even increase it to keep the entire food supply system operating. In many cases, processors had
Africa’s distributed renewable energy sector still dominated by foreign players
The distributed renewable energy sector in Africa has grown rapidly since 2013, but it has so far failed to include locally-owned companies and initiatives. Finance has overwhelmingly only been accessible
Syngenta Flowers strengthens European leadership team
Supply Chain at the core of the organization, with broad scope in activities to bring quality Operations to become separate function, with focus on delivery performance Continued commitment to offer
For struggling SA chicken producers, post-Covid-19 world promises a flood of imports
SA’s poultry sector is bracing itself for a tough time after Covid-19, as producers warn of increased chicken dumping ahead. FairPlay founder Francois Baird believes that once disrupted supply chains
How to achieve shorter water-use licence process
Jacky Burke principal scientist SRK Consulting Achieving a 90-day turnaround for the water-use licence application (WULA) process will be a welcome step for the struggling economy, according to SRK Consulting
South Africa VS Coronavirus: Exports keeping agriculture afloat
By Xolisa Phillip, in Johannesburg A man wears a face mask to protect against coronavirus, as he pushes a trolley boxes of citrus fruit nearby a taxi rank in downtown…
OPINION: Fortifying the African agri-food systems against exogenous shock
The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement as an indispensable arsenal in the fortifying of Africa’s agri-food systems and ensuring that the economic potential of the sector is fully exploited for
Alert over renewed desert locust swarms heading into West Africa
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture has warned that desert locusts remain a threat in three counties as the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) cautions that the swarms could soon find