Category: African Economies?

Africa ‘needs green revolution’

BBC By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, Farmer digs a whole in a cassava field (Getty Images) Biotechnology could help improve African agriculture’s resilience to future climate changes Sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of biotechnology in order to establish sustainable development, says a report. A key challenge is to attract funding for

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How fast is Africa really growing?

Financial Times By Razia Khan of Standard Chartered Bank Africa is rising, but poor data availability means that we can’t be sure by how much. There are proxies that help shed some light. Chinese customs data show that Africa-China trade ballooned to $210bn last year from $5bn-$7bn at the end of the 1990s. Lending to

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