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. The country’s nominal GDP was in 2014 estimated at 286.4 billion […]
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. […]
In many African countries, a significant portion of the labor force is engaged in the agricultural sector, including Nigeria’s agricultural landscape. Despite its crucial role in the economy, the sector is marked by lower productivity levels compared to the non-agricultural sectors. Moreover, the contribution of agriculture to GDP is often less than its share of […]
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 […]
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 […]
As we saw in the previous article, Africa has 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 various […]
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 […]
In the most expensive city in the world[1]: Luanda, Angola, everything is expensive but time. Even with pre-scheduled meetings, people can leave you waiting for more than an hour and just apologize for it with a common smile; a smile that I will come to understand over the course of my assignment in the country […]
