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...
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...
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.
The Recovery, Reform or Reinvention of Agricultural Finance, Cooperatives and Rural Enterprise
Four years of reform in Zambian agricultural finance since 2022 – what has recovered, what has genuinely reformed, and where reinvention still lags.
From smallholders’ persistent dependence on seasonal cash, informal lending and gover to the Present: Agricultural Finance, Cooperatives and Rural Enterprise
From seasonal cash, informal lending and state input programmes to reform linking cooperatives, digital platforms and banks in Zambia’s rural finance.
Climate-Smart Agriculture After the 2024 Drought: Scenarios for Zambia’s Future
Three scenarios for Zambian farming to 2031 after the 2024 drought – permanent shift, partial adaptation or reversion – and the indicators to track.
The Businesses Behind Climate-Smart Agriculture After the 2024 Drought
Sorghum, cassava, conservation agriculture, index insurance and climate advisory – where Zambia’s post-drought adaptation economy becomes an investment case.
The New Momentum Behind Climate-Smart Agriculture After the 2024 Drought
Four years on from 2022, which parts of Zambia’s climate-smart agriculture push have delivered and which remain announcements after the 2024 drought.
The Long History Behind Climate-Smart Agriculture After the 2024 Drought
How decades of maize-heavy, rain-fed farming set up Zambia’s 2024 drought crisis and pushed the sector toward climate-smart agriculture.
How Zambia Can Win the Next Phase of Honey, Bees and Forest-Based Rural Enterprise
Can Zambian honey link conservation incentives to profitable rural enterprise? Winning and losing scenarios, and the indicators to track toward 2031.
The Investment Map for Honey, Bees and Forest-Based Rural Enterprise
A node-by-node investment map for Zambian honey: hives, aggregation, certification, processing, cosmetics, wax and branded exports – and where returns compound.
Honey, Bees and Forest-Based Rural Enterprise: Successes, Setbacks and the Current Position
A candid 2022 to mid-2026 audit of Zambian honey: real gains in recognition under Hand-in-Hand, separated from the production and scale still to be built.
Building the Modern Honey, Bees and Forest-Based Rural Enterprise: A Historical Account
From miombo woodland beekeeping to a targeted Hand-in-Hand investment sector: the historical arc of Zambia’s honey, bees and forest-based rural enterprise.
The Strategic Choices Ahead for Farm Blocks and the Search for Agricultural Scale
Can Zambia’s farm blocks become integrated agro-industrial corridors rather than isolated estates? Scenarios and the indicators to track toward 2031.