Tag: Food security
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17 Oct 23 NewsKenya Country Economic Memorandum: Seizing Kenya’s Services Momentum (World Bank)
The latest Kenya Country Economic Memorandum – Seizing Kenya’s Services Momentum, anal...
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12 Oct 23 NewsSouth Africa Wants to Hand Operation of Rail, Ports to Business After $27 Billion Loss (Bloomberg BNN0
The South African presidency has a plan to reverse the collapse of a state-r...
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12 Sep 23 News‘The world is not waiting for us’ on digital technology – Minister Gungubele (News24)
South Africa will become an irrelevant trading partner if the country does not keep up ...
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07 Sep 23 NewsAfrica Climate Summit
Outcome document
The African Leaders Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action - 6 September 2023
Africa Climate Summit ends with ca...
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01 Aug 23 NewsSouth Africa: Trade balance dipped unexpectedly in June (The Citizen)
South Africa’s merchandise trade balance unexpectedly dipped in June, with the value of the country’s exp...
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27 Jul 23 NewsSouth Africa Seeks to Halt Used Rail Track Exports to Curb Theft (Bloomberg)
South Africa’s trade minister proposed new regulations to prohibit the export of used rail tracks an...
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24 Jul 23 NewsDuty-free maize imports plan flops on costly supplies (Business Daily)
Kenya’s plan to import about 900,000 tonnes of white maize by next month has run into headwinds on costly ...
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20 Jul 23 NewsIMF Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation with Kingdom of Lesotho
Lesotho’s economy continues to face a number of challenges in the wake of the pandemic. Climat...
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14 Jul 23 NewsTransnet container terminals remain optimistic of strong citrus season finish (Engineering News)
Average year-on-year comparisons of citrus handling volumes show a 9.2% volume inc...
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05 Jun 23 NewsSouth Africa: African Continental Free Trade Area Awareness Workshop Goes to Gauteng (The Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition)
The Department of Trade, Industry, a...
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09 May 23 NewsMining explorations breach N$1.3 bln (New Era)
Exploration in 2022 continued with its upward trajectory, breaching N$1.3 billion in real terms. This was shared by the Chamber...
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20 Apr 23 NewsRamaphosa reports constructive engagement with steel sector to grow industry (Engineering News)
President Cyril Ramaphosa met with business leaders in the steel and engineering in...
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14 Apr 23 NewsClosing remarks by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the 5th South Africa Investment Conference, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg (The Presidency)
We have come to the end of the...
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03 Mar 23 NewsSouth Africa must prioritise decarbonisation, as $1.5bn of exports to EU are at risk (Engineering News)
South Africa should prioritise its decarbonisation strategy, as i...
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13 Feb 23 NewsMaritime Chamber wants to contribute more to South Africa’s economic recovery (Engineering News)
Industry organisation the Maritime Business Chamber has written an open let...
Climate change, trade, and food security in Africa
25 Nov 22 PublicationsThe relationship between food security, trade and the environment is a complex but increasingly important one. The impacts of climate change have undermined progress in food securi...
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25 Oct 22 NewsLocal news
Report backs Proudly SA’s Buy Local campaign (SAnews)
A report on South Africa’s manufacturing sector has reaffirmed what the national Proudly South African campai...
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23 Oct 22 NewsLocal news
Overcoming financial exclusion in South Africa (Moneyweb)
Financial inclusion is severely skewed in South Africa, with higher income groups having more access to a ran...
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17 Oct 22 NewsLocal trade news
Exports a way to create jobs in South Africa (SAnews)
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the export of South African products to markets in other countries has a las...
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05 Oct 22 NewsLocal news
South Africa’s trade surplus drops to R7.2 billion (BusinessTech)
The South African Revenue Service’s (SARS) trade statistics for August 2022 recorded a preliminar...