by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 13, 2023 | Farming
Somalia’s farmers and herders have fed the country and exported to the Gulf for generations, largely without the finance, storage or formal markets that would let them keep more of the value they create. Today’s news does not close that gap, but it changes...
by The Fikiria Desk | Oct 26, 2023 | Farming
A railway built to carry copper does not have to run empty on the way back. The Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the most fertile territories on earth, imports a striking share of its food, in part because moving produce to and from its interior is slow and...
by The Fikiria Desk | Jul 17, 2023 | Farming
Burundi’s economy is agricultural at its base — coffee, tea and food crops carried by smallholders — yet the value it exports is rarely the value it keeps. That structural gap is the backdrop to the news that on 17 July 2023 the IMF approved a 38-month Extended...
by The Fikiria Desk | Apr 20, 2023 | Farming
Most Rwandans farm, and most Rwandan farms are small — steep, fragmented plots worked by hand, feeding families first and markets second. The paradox is familiar across the region: agriculture carries the most people and the least value. When Rwanda adopted its...
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Farming
A submarine cable and a smallholder’s harvest seem to belong to different worlds, and for most farmers in the Horn they still do. The PEACE cable entered commercial service this week with a landing in Djibouti, adding a high-capacity route between Asia, Africa...