Industry Dynamics

Grain SA has strongly rejected the final outcome of the wheat tariff amendment investigation, following confirmation in the Government Gazette that the Dollar-Based Reference Price (DBRP) for wheat will remain unchanged at US$279 per ton and that no automatic trigger mechanism wi...

Kenya is accelerating efforts to transform its sugar industry into a key contributor to the country’s energy sector, with the government promoting electricity generation and ethanol production as part of a broader strategy to reduce fuel imports, enhance energy security, and incr...

Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture has signed a contract with Chinese agro-industrial engineering company Agrifam Co., Ltd to build a fully automated poultry hatchery, strengthening the country’s poultry production capacity as demand for animal protein continues to rise.

Global prices for forest products exported by the six member states of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) rose 2.9% between the fourth quarter of 2025 and the first quarter of 2026, according to the Composite Commodity Price Index published by the Bank of...

According to newly released data, Algeria has now secured third place among Arab nations in operational steelmaking capacity. Egypt tops the ranking with an annual output capacity of 15.6 million tonnes, followed by Saudi Arabia in second place at 12 million tonnes.

Tanzania has secured banana market access to South Africa, opening a larger regional outlet for Tanzanian growers and signalling broader momentum in the country’s agricultural export push.

Ghana has decided to maintain the farmgate cocoa price set during the main crop season of the 2025/26 marketing year for the upcoming mid-crop season, which is scheduled to begin on June 18.

A Commodity Insight Africa analysis estimates Zambia's 2025/26 soybean harvest at around 450,000 tonnes, marking a partial recovery from the sharp contraction recorded in 2024. Although production remains well below the record 760,000 tonnes achieved in 2023, the rebound strength...

Extractive revenues collected by Mali's state budget reached 978.29 billion CFA francs (about $1.728 billion) in 2024, accounting for 40.93% of public revenues for the year. With gold prices having remained on an upward trend for more than a year, how much further can gold's cont...