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Food and agricultural sector policy is a politically charged issue throughout Southern and Eastern Africa. Food security concerns, the growing focus on expanding national food production, and aspirations to develop value-added food processing industries pose important policy challenges in terms o...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEastern Africa Grain Council[Southern and Eastern Africa - Agricultural trade policy debates and deveopments: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013]Southern and Eastern Africa - Agricultural trade policy debates and deveopments: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013

This Executive Brief analyses the main trends of the world rice market in 2012-13. Compared to other cereal markets, rice prices were exceptionally stable in 2012, though they continued at a high level. They remained vulnerable to public policy measures in major producing countries (e.g. India, T...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEastern Africa Grain Council[Rice sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013]Rice sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013

This Executive Brief examines 2012-13 developments in ACP countries’ access to the EU market. The emergence of a range of differentiated market access arrangements (EPAs/Interim EPAs, the Everything But Arms Agreement and standard Generalised Systems of Preferences) has to be examined in the broa...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEastern Africa Grain Council[Market access: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013]Market access: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013

Although China and India are the leading global tea producers, Kenya is the third largest producer and the largest exporter of black tea. Continuing the trend of the previous five years, in 2012 prices rose, offering Kenyan smallholder producers consistent revenues. However, production costs were...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEastern Africa Grain Council[Tea sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013]Tea sector: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013

Tuna products sold in the EU (the largest world market for tuna products, mainly sold in canned form), come from countries where EU companies have invested in processing facilities and where the EU has bilateral fishing agreements or private licensing agreements. This Executive Brief examines the...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEastern Africa Grain Council[Tuna sector - Issues and challenges: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013]Tuna sector - Issues and challenges: Agritrade Executive Brief Update 2013

Some 20 million livestock keepers in the Horn of Africa are threatened by increasingly frequent and severe droughts. These have eroded the pastoralists’ adaptive capacity and resilience to such an extent that almost every drought now results in a humanitarian crisis. A CTA-led project, Enhancing ...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation[CLI-MARK: Weather forecasts, insurance and markets]CLI-MARK: Weather forecasts, insurance and markets

Digitalisation of agriculture is driving an exponential growth in the amount of data on agriculture being collected. This calls for new tools and approaches to gather, manage, analyse and use this data. CTA’s project, Data4Ag: Agricultural data systems to transform smallholder farming, focuses on...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation[Data4Ag: Using data to transform smallholder farming]Data4Ag: Using data to transform smallholder farming

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) – or drone-based technologies – have the potential to transform smallholder farming and help increase crop production. As a tool of precision agriculture, UAS provide farmers with realtime, actionable data on their land, crops and livestock, and help maximise input e...


Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation[Eyes in the sky, smart techs on the ground]Eyes in the sky, smart techs on the ground

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEastern Africa Grain CouncilInternational Fertilizer Development Center[Agricultural market information systems in Africa 4: Deciding on your business model]Agricultural market information systems in Africa 4: Deciding on your business model

Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEastern Africa Grain CouncilInternational Fertilizer Development Center[Agricultural market information systems in Africa 11: Data - Ethical and legal issues]Agricultural market information systems in Africa 11: Data - Ethical and legal issues

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