Strong Kwacha, Soft Margins: The Currency Side of Zambia’s Stable Food Prices
A strong currency is usually a story about importers and tourists. In Zambia this year it is also a story about the price of nshima. Through March 2026, maize and maize-meal prices held stable, and one of the quieter reasons was the kwacha. A firmer ZMW made imported...
Strong Kwacha, Soft Margins: The Currency Side of Zambia’s Stable Food Prices
A strong currency is usually a story about importers and tourists. In Zambia this year it is also a story about the price of nshima. Through March 2026, maize and maize-meal prices held stable, and one of the quieter reasons was the kwacha. A firmer ZMW made imported...
European capital moves into Malawi’s agricultural finance gap
EIB Global’s €7.5 million financing agreement with Centenary Bank Malawi is small compared with sovereign infrastructure loans, but it targets one of Malawi’s most persistent growth constraints: the shortage of suitable credit for small farmers and micro...
Anchored by Maize: How a Bumper Harvest Held Zambia’s Food Prices Steady
Food inflation usually arrives in Zambia through two doors at once: a thin harvest at home and a weak kwacha abroad. When both swing the wrong way, the price of nshima climbs and pulls the rest of the basket with it. In early 2026, for once, both doors held. A bumper...
Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
Strong Kwacha, Soft Margins: The Currency Side of Zambia’s Stable Food Prices
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.
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.
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.