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Investments in Agribusiness in Africa
- October 30, 2017
- Posted by: Mona Abisourour
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, Blog Category, Sustainable Development, Technology & Telecommunication
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Can Africa feed the world? Africa’s agriculture sector has been growing at a steady pace and might turn the continent into an economic power. Africa might be able to feed itself and the world if it keeps putting a focus on enhancing efficiency in using its resources. The focus on agriculture emerged from the willingness -
Agriculture in Ethiopia
- August 1, 2016
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Agriculture, Blog Category, East Africa
Ethiopia is a landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. It is located in the Horn of Africa, bordering six (6) countries: Djibouti and Somalia to the East, Eritrea to the North and Northeast, Kenya to the South and Sudan and South Sudan to the West. With a population of 94 million (2013) growing
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Kenyan Agricultural Sector
- February 4, 2016
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, East Africa
COUNTRY DESCRIPTION Kenya is a large country of 580,367 km² that borders Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Indian Ocean. Kenya’s nominal GDP in 2014 totaled $60.77 billion USD - $132.4 billion when adjusted for purchasing power – and both the economy and per capita GDP have shown consistent growth despite the recent -
Egypt: Overview of the Agriculture Sector
- October 6, 2015
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, Blog Category, North Africa
The country Egypt is a country in North-Eastern Africa. It shares borders with Libya, Sudan, Israel and the Gaza Strip. It has coasts on the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. The total area is 1,000,450 sq. km with a population of 83.39 million[1]. The country’s nominal GDP was in 2014 estimated at 286.4 billion -
Agriculture in Ethiopia
- July 2, 2015
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, Blog Category, East Africa
This article is the second in a series that seek to examine the role of agriculture as a developmental opportunity for Africa. It focusses on Ethiopia and provides a broad overview of some of the key developments in agriculture. It features and analyzes the country’s agricultural progress from 1960s to date, and some future prospects.
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Is Nigeria’s agricultural sector progressing?
- May 21, 2015
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, Blog Category, Central Africa
In most African countries, large proportions of the labor force are employed in the agricultural sector. Despite this important contribution to the economy, African agriculture is still characterized by low productivity compared to non-agricultural sectors. The sector’s shares in the GDP are systematically lower than the employment shares of agriculture in most countries in the
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Rice Growing in Senegal: A Promising Sector for Investors?
- April 9, 2015
- Posted by: Fatou NDIAYE
- Category: Agriculture, West Africa
As the African continent is struggling to meet its increasing of food self-sufficiency demands, the food market is becoming very attractive for investors. It is also a major market due to the population’s increase of purchasing power over the last years. The situation in Senegal regarding the most common commodity in the country: rice, is
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Futures Commodity Market in Morocco, how can it help improve the agricultural sector?
- February 14, 2014
- Posted by: Hicham CHALLAKH
- Category: Africa, Agriculture, Financial Services, North Africa
The Market Capital Authority in Morocco has done a study to launch a Commodity Exchange market, looking forward to prepare the financial and the legal framework to develop this project, after assessing its success potential. A Commodity Exchange is a market in which multiple buyers and sellers trade commodity-linked contracts on the basis of rules
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Land investments in Africa: a long-term move or a simple opportunity?
- September 17, 2013
- Posted by: Younes AMRAOUI
- Category: Africa, Agriculture
As we saw in the previous article, Africa has a considerable agricultural potential in terms of lands but doesn’t take full advantage of it because of its lack of means. On other continents, the situation is in the opposite direction as the developed regions of the world started to run out of agricultural resources for
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Crops production in Africa: self-sufficiency versus cash
- September 4, 2013
- Posted by: Younes AMRAOUI
- Category: Africa, Agriculture
Africa has the second largest agriculture potential in the world in term of land area. But it also has one of the largest populations, Agriculture employs more than 60% of it and accounts for 32% of the African GDP, but the continent is sometimes accused of producing “cash crops” while it is still suffering from
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