Paris Baguette’s store in Canary Wharf, London, is crowded with visitors, Nov. 26, 2024. Courtesy of SPC/Foreign divisions focus on localization By Ko Dong-hwan Food franchise group SPC announced on Friday that it has restructured its organization to exercise more effective control over its international markets, particularly for Paris Baguette, its bakery subsidiary currently undergoing ...

A view of Oriental Industrial Park in Addis Ababa of Ethiopia on August 2, 2023 Photo: Tu Lei/GT “‘It smells so good! I can’t believe that the biscuits are made of pure millet!’ This is always what our African partners would say when they visit our millet processing plant in Burkina Faso,” Zhao Hanqing, deputy ...

A volunteer grinds coffee beans with children during a hands-on experience session at the Ethiopia pavilion of a permanent exhibition hall of the China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation Promotion Innovation Demonstration Park in Changsha, central China’s Hunan Province, Aug. 30, 2024. Various activities promoting youth communication between China and Africa were organized here during the ...

Zhang Hongyan explains wheat management techniques to African students in a wheat field in Quzhou county, Handan, Hebei province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] A group of African students studying at China Agricultural University have recently been busy conducting research and learning techniques in Quzhou county, Handan, Hebei province. The 15 students from China Agricultural University ...

By BERNARD BUSUULWA Despite frequent promises to develop agriculture and promote farmers’ interests in Africa, the share of credit going to the sector remains small, mostly owing to factors outside of it. For one, lenders have found it profitable to focus on other areas, and authorities across the continent have been tinkering with interest rate ...

Expands her Operations into West and Southern Africa to become Africa’s Largest Biodigester company. Africa….. Sistema.bio, has extended her biodigester technology solutions into West and Southern Africa to become Africa’s Largest Biodigester company. Founded in 2010, the company employs and contracts over 2500 people. Sistema.bio has operations in 31 countries with its African footprint initially ...

Lin Zhanxi (R), a professor from China’s Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, visits a mushroom growing shed in Kigali, Rwanda, on Aug. 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Ji Li) The Juncao technology invented by Lin Zhanxi from China’s Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in the 1980s has benefitted over 100 countries, including Rwanda. KIGALI, At an exhibition stand ...

This article is part of the US-China Dynamics series, edited by Muqtedar Khan, Jiwon Nam and Amara Galileo. Africa is still affected by hunger and malnutrition, despite its description as the food basket of the global system. This recurrent problem is partly due to the outbreak of COVID-19, climate change (inaction on climate change by ...

HPE Africa’s newly launched Hyundai HX380L Series crawler excavators – which are classified in the medium to large category – are now available locally. “These robust machines – already hard at work in tough African conditions – have impressive performance features that are welcomed in demanding industries, like mining, quarrying, construction and civil engineering,” says ...

Africa could become the world’s powerhouse, particularly with the African Continent Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) seeking to remove trade barriers. AfCFTA is key to implementing the Agenda 2063 goals, which include healthy citizens and modern agriculture for increased productivity and production. Here are five focus areas to drive the Africa’s agriculture and food production from ...