Africa’s food markets could create one trillion dollar opportunity by 2030
Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030 if they can expand their access to more capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods, and if African governments can work more closely with agribusinesses to feed the regions fast-growing urban
South Africa supports berry farming for job creation
In December 2012 Frontier looked at how the Eastern Cape Province has targeted bamboo as an industry that can potentially create thousands of jobs in the province, which has the highest unemployment rate in the country.
SABMiller’s cassava beer set to boost agriculture in Ghana
SABMiller has launched a cassava beer in Ghana, the global brewing giant said on Thursday, and this will bolster its strategy of wooing low-income home-brew drinkers in African markets.
SA wine exports to reach record levels in 2013
Over the past couple of years the South African wine industry has been under pressure due to a strong rand and the ongoing effects of the recession, coupled with a slowdown in demand from supermarkets and a “trading down†as consumers were choosing cheaper wines.
