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Agribusiness insights, practical experience and updates from Warfaa.
In many African countries, food safety and quality standards are either weakly enforced or inconsistently applied in local markets. As a result, farmers, traders, transporters, processors, and aggregators become accustomed to operating in an environment where poor handling practices carry little consequence.
Read article Africa’s Agricultural Challenge Is Not Just Production. It Is Post-Harvest Handling →During the Agribusiness Side Chat discussion at #InvestEastAfrica, organised by the East African Business Council, Prof. Jean Jacques Muhinda highlighted one of the reasons why this may be the case: a lack of coordination and misaligned interests among the different actors involved in agriculture.
Read article Africa’s Agricultural Challenge Is Not Just Funding. It Is Coordination and Alignment →Between 30% and 50% of all food produced across the continent never makes it to a consumer’s plate, and over 80% of this loss occurs upstream during harvesting, handling, processing, and transit, long before the food reaches the local market.
Read article Africa Does Not Just Have a Food Production Problem. It Has a Post-Harvest Infrastructure Problem →Africa is the world’s most climate vulnerable continent despite historically contributing less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions World Meteorological Organization (WMO, 2024). This underlying imbalance highlights the connection of climate change and international trade across the region.
Read article The Geopolitics of Green Trade: Climate Change, Trade and Resource Nationalism in Africa →For generations, the standard economic narrative told to Africa’s youth has been that the future of our continental prosperity lies in transforming our vast agricultural landscape.
Read article From Digging to Dollars: Why Data, Not Dirt, Will Unlock AfCFTA Prosperity for Africa’s Youth in Agribusiness →
