Zambia’s maize prices held stable in March 2026 on a bumper harvest and a strong kwacha easing imported inflation, but exporters still face currency risk.
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Farming
European capital moves into Malawi’s agricultural finance gap
EIB Global’s €7.5 million facility with Centenary Bank targets small farmers and micro agribusinesses, converting European development capital into local agricultural credit.
Anchored by Maize: How a Bumper Harvest Held Zambia’s Food Prices Steady
FAO data shows Zambia’s maize and meal prices held steady in March 2026, anchored by a bumper harvest and a strong kwacha easing imported-inflation pressure.
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Acting Minister Dikoloti has told Digawana farmers that strict FMD protocols are essential to regain Zone 11’s green status within 3–6 months and protect
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.