Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The pitch is a complete value chain: Chinese companies planting, breeding and processing African crops into goods worth more than the raw harvest. The recorded...
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The pitch is a complete value chain: Chinese companies planting, breeding and processing African crops into goods worth more than the raw harvest. The recorded...
Agricultural training: A yield story wearing a diplomatic suit
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China-Africa agricultural training is usually filed under diplomacy. The farmer who attends a course files it under something more concrete: whether the maize stands...
Demonstration centres: Where China’s agronomy meets Africa’s yield gap
Farming - Food Systems & Sustainability · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A demonstration centre is built to show what is possible. A smallholder field is where what is possible has to survive drought, credit gaps and a market price....
A tropical agriculture centre: research as the slow infrastructure of trade
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Ports and railways photograph well; a seed bank does not. Yet the longest-lasting infrastructure in agriculture is often the least visible: the research station that...
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Chinese firms in African agriculture are pitched as a farm-to-processing story, yet most of the recorded investment still sits at the farm gate, where the value chain is thinnest.
Agricultural training: A yield story wearing a diplomatic suit
The training programmes are read as diplomacy, but the figures that matter are agronomic, and a farmer measures the result in tonnes per hectare, not in communiques.
Demonstration centres: Where China’s agronomy meets Africa’s yield gap
The centres are presented as platforms for productivity, yet a demonstration plot and a smallholder field are not the same place, and the distance between them is where the real story sits.
A tropical agriculture centre: research as the slow infrastructure of trade
China is building a centre for tropical agricultural science with Africa. Laboratories rarely make news, but the seeds and methods they produce may outlast any single trade deal.
Grow, process, sell: the business chain Africa keeps leaving incomplete
China’s pledges span planting, processing and trade. The middle link, turning crops into finished goods on African soil, is the one the continent most needs and most often misses.
Quarantine and paperwork: the unglamorous keys to Africa’s China market
Market access into China is won less by handshakes than by inspection protocols. Twenty-two export agreements have opened doors, but only for the producers who can meet the standards behind them.
Agricultural Modernisation: The Summit Pledge Africa Has Heard Before
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.
Keeping Kids Fed: Schools Navigate Food Supply Disruptions
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.
Beans, Samp and Schedules: Kanye Keeps School Meals Moving Despite Delays
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.
Schools Keep Meals Flowing Amid Supply Chain Snags
Kanye District councillors said the school feeding programme runs fairly despite delays in beans and samp supplies, with P6.5 million budgeted.
Zambia as a Regional Food-Security Buffer: Successes, Setbacks and the Current Position
Weighing Zambia’s food-security buffer, 2022–2026: drought export bans, a record maize crop and resumed corn exports, gains versus announcements.
Five Signals That Will Determine the Future of Agro-Processing and the Industrialisation of Zambia’s Harvest
Five signals to watch on whether Zambia can turn its maize and soya surpluses into a competitive regional agro-processing base by 2031.
The Businesses Behind Agro-Processing and the Industrialisation of Zambia’s Harvest
Milling, oils, feed, dairy, meat, fruit, packaging and cold storage: mapping the commercial opportunity in Zambia’s agro-processing sector, chain by chain.
How Agro-Processing and the Industrialisation of Zambia’s Harvest Became a Zambian Strategic Asset
Zambia exports raw crops and imports processed food. How national strategy reframed agro-processing as a strategic asset for diversification and jobs.
Building the Next Decade of Agricultural Finance, Cooperatives and Rural Enterprise
Can digital identity and transaction data make Zambia’s smallholders bankable by 2031? Two scenarios and the indicators that will reveal which is unfolding.
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