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On 20 May 2024, SADC Heads of State and Government held an Extraordinary Virtual Summit, chaired by Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço as SADC Chairperson, to launch a Regional Humanitarian Appeal seeking at least US$5.5 billion to address an El...
During a May 2024 foot-and-mouth outbreak, Botswana authorities chose to vaccinate cattle rather than cull them, easing farmer anxieties while raising vaccine and monitoring needs.
Livestock producers near the South African border urged government in April 2024 to build a 200 km fence to block cross-border foot-and-mouth transmission and protect EU beef exports.
Explore how climate change impacts Southern Africa’s agriculture and discover sustainable solutions for building resilience and ensuring food security.
Explore innovative irrigation techniques for small-scale farmers, including drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, and smart irrigation technology for sustainable farming.
Coffee lovers, raise your mugs! While your morning latte might hail from distant lands, the true coffee connoisseur knows the origin story begins in Ethiopia. This East African nation boasts a heritage intertwined with the very bean, and sipping Ethiopian coffee is...
Some of Southern Africa's most productive farmland sits inside its least stable corridors. Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and northern Mozambique are both significant agricultural zones, and both are also the subject of active SADC peace-support operations...
Agro-processing sits at the centre of SADC's stated theme for its 2022/23 reporting year, yet the same report that names agro-processing as a growth driver also lists infrastructure development and market access among the bottlenecks that slowed regional progress...
A summit whose theme names "human and financial capital" as the drivers of industrialisation, and whose communiqué runs to peacekeeping missions, health declarations and a gas infrastructure plan, does not mention agriculture once by name. That silence is...