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Agriculture appears first among the six sectors named in this week's SADC-EU review, ahead of trade, natural resources management and infrastructure, which is either a meaningful signal about where the region's largest external development partner intends to...
The April 2026 FMD outbreak at the Ramatlabama AI centre likely came from contaminated clothing or equipment; BMC abattoirs shut after slaughtering 12,291 cattle for the EU market.
At Masama Market in April 2026, Assistant Minister Baratiwa Mathoothe urged farmers to form cooperatives, lease unused land and embrace agro-processing to make agriculture the top GDP contributor.
Acting agriculture minister Dr Edwin Dikoloti told farmers that strict foot-and-mouth compliance could restore green status in 3 to 6 months, protecting the EU premium beef market.
Kgalagadi butchery owners warn that prolonged foot-and-mouth slaughter bans could ruin their businesses, and are calling for swift resolution.
A regional foot and mouth disease outbreak does not respect the border that a regional trade agreement is trying to open. That tension sat at the centre of the SADC Council of Ministers meeting in Pretoria on 13 March 2026, where ministers urged acceleration of a...
A smallholder or mid-scale processor in the Southern African Development Community region can often grow or produce a crop competitively enough to sell across a border. What more frequently stops that sale is a phytosanitary certificate the importing state will not...
Food security and industrial policy are usually filed as separate agendas. The 45th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government, held on 17 August 2025 in Antananarivo, Republic of Madagascar, deliberately merged them, endorsing a Summit theme of...
For the poultry farmer, the clock starts not when the bird leaves the shell, but when the egg first feels the warmth of incubation. The length of that journey - 16 days for a quail, 46 days for an ostrich - can determine how quickly capital returns, how often the...