Supply Chain - Africa

Feed Fight: African Consumers Hit As Asia Gobbles Up Rice Supplies

Tightening global supplies of basic foodstuffs and disruptions to shipping caused by the coronavirus pandemic are driving up the cost of rice, the mos...

African Free Trade Bloc Opens For Business, But Challenges Remain

African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on 1 January, after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus...

How Africa Risks Reeling From A Health Crisis To A Food Crisis

In Nigeria's Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, bu...

Coronavirus Upends Global Food Supply Chains In Latest Economic Shock

In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed...

Uganda Sprays Locust Swarms To Protect Coffee Crop, Livestock

Uganda has started to spray swarms of desert locusts that invaded over the weekend, posing a major threat to livestock and key crops such as coffee....

Dry Winds Threaten Ivory Coast Cocoa Bean Development

Dry winds and below-average rainfall in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa growing regions last week could jeopardize the development of the last stage of the Oct...

Cashew Prices Jump Nearly 10% After Tanzania Price Hike

The global price of cashew nuts has jumped nearly 10% over the past week, after Tanzania's government started buying the entire country's stock at a higher...

Extending Palm Oil Production In Africa Could Put Primates In Danger: Study

A European research team has found that an extension of the palm oil industry in Africa could have dramatic outcomes for wildlife, especially African prima...

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Supply Chain - Africa

Feed Fight: African Consumers Hit As Asia Gobbles Up Rice Supplies

African Free Trade Bloc Opens For Business, But Challenges Remain

How Africa Risks Reeling From A Health Crisis To A Food Crisis

Coronavirus Upends Global Food Supply Chains In Latest Economic Shock

Uganda Sprays Locust Swarms To Protect Coffee Crop, Livestock

Dry Winds Threaten Ivory Coast Cocoa Bean Development

Cashew Prices Jump Nearly 10% After Tanzania Price Hike

Extending Palm Oil Production In Africa Could Put Primates In Danger: Study

African Coffee Output May Almost Double In Five Years As Farms Grow

Cameroon Seeks To Improve Cocoa Bean Quality After Declines

Ghana To Tap Stabilization Fund For Cocoa Pay Next Season

Africa Corn Silos Overflow In South As Food Crisis Hits East

Cocoa Slump Seen To Foil Cameroon Target of Doubling Output

Pothole Puddles Show Risk For Cocoa, With Record Ivorian Crop

Cocoa Plunge, Mutinous Army May Widen Ivory Coast Deficit