This article was produced with the support of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Mold, in a presentation on the link between trade and food security to delegates at a side event of the 2025 ECA Conference of Ministers, cited ECA’s forthcoming report, Improving Food Security in Eastern Africa Through Greater Intra-Regional Trade –A ...

In a hot and sunny November afternoon in temperatures reaching 30C, Siphiwe Sithole is busy sorting a customer’s order of bambara beans on her farm in Laezonia, South Africa. Sithole’s farm is about 15 kilometres from the administrative capital Pretoria. It specialises in “indigenous” South African crops – a catch-all term referring both to native ...

By Musonda Mwewa The Angolan Government has called for increased partnership with the Zambian government in developing the agriculture and mining sector. Angolan Ambassador Extraordinary to Zambia ALBINO MALUNGA says the his government has a lot to learn from the Zambia’s agriculture and mining sectors. In an interview with ZNBC News at the commemoration of ...

The list of China’s food imports from Africa now includes avocados, soybeans, pineapples, chillies, cashew nuts, sesame seeds and spices. Photo: Xinhua Avocados and honey imports a sign of China’s growing agricultural engagement with Africa Agricultural cooperation to be high on the agenda when Beijing hosts the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit next week. South ...

The African Energy Chamber commends the partnership between Afreximbank, AMUFERT, OPAIA and Sonagas to establish a fertilizer plant in Soyo, Angola LUANDA, Angola, July, 2024/ — Pan-African multilateral financial institution the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) will support the establishment of Ammonia and Urea Fertilizer’s (AMUFERT) fertilizer plant in Soyo, Angola with a $1.4 billion financing ...

The African Development Bank’s support will help Angola strengthen job creation and promote youth entrepreneurship in the agriculture and transport sectors. The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a loan of $79.08 million to the Republic of Angola to promote youth entrepreneurship and employment in the agriculture and transport sectors. ...

Project participants learn to install a modern beehive in Bailundo, Angola. Empretec training programme by UNCTAD is equipping them with the knowledge to explore new sustainable business opportunities. Domingo Nvita Manuel Judite used to manage a guesthouse and a car rental company in Soyo, Zaire Province in Northern Angola, serving offshore oil workers. In this ...

The initiative aims to increase national poultry meat production, create additional jobs, and reduce the nation’s dependence on imported chicken. A new initiative by the government of Angola aims to increase domestic chicken production, as well as to provide new employment opportunities. The first phase of the project that aims to increase output by seven ...

HUAMBO — ADRA Executive Director Carlos Cambuta on Wednesday called on the Angolan government to put more emphasis on family farming to ensure the stability of the Strategic Food Reserve (REA).  Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a seminar to develop ADRA’s Strategic Plan 2023-2027, Kambutha said family farming is an answer to food ...

Image/Unsplash Menongue — Farming families in south-east Cuando Cubango province received 5,395 different seedlings in 2022, the Forestry Development Institute (IDF) has announced. IDF said the move is meant to encourage the planting of fruit trees in the region. Speaking to the press, the head of IDF department in Cuando Cubango, Domingos Afonso Ndedika, assured ...