by The Fikiria Desk | Jun 10, 2026 | Farming
Farming – Agri-Finance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A school meal is a supply chain that cannot miss a day. When the produce does not arrive, children do not eat, and there is no catching up tomorrow. The council reported in June 2026 that the...
by The Fikiria Desk | Feb 24, 2025 | Farming
The Democratic Republic of Congo supplies most of the world’s cobalt, yet the rural economies nearest the pits capture the least of that value. On 24 February 2025, Kinshasa moved to change one side of that equation, suspending cobalt exports for four months to...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 19, 2023 | Farming
The same trucks that carry copper out of Katanga carry very little back in for the farmer. That quiet imbalance frames what the Tenke Fungurume settlement means beyond the mine gate. Today CMOC and Gécamines have settled the royalty dispute that had frozen exports,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 29, 2022 | Farming
The copperbelt is usually discussed as if it were only rock, but the same districts that hold cobalt also hold farms, market towns and rural households whose finances turn on whether roads, power and processing exist. On 29 April 2022 the Democratic Republic of Congo...
by The Fikiria Desk | Aug 5, 2019 | Farming
African agriculture runs on a paradox. The continent holds a large share of the world’s uncultivated arable land, yet it imports much of the fertiliser its farmers need and uses less of it per hectare than almost anywhere else. Potash — the potassium in the trio...