The Lobito Corridor is becoming a capacity business
A proposed $300 million boost and an 800,000-tonne cargo target show that the corridor’s value will be measured by throughput, reliability and the industries that organise around it. The Lobito Corridor is moving from geopolitical concept to operating-capacity...
A tropical agriculture centre: research as the slow infrastructure of trade
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Ports and railways photograph well; a seed bank does not. Yet the longest-lasting infrastructure in agriculture is often the least visible: the research station that...
Grow, process, sell: the business chain Africa keeps leaving incomplete
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The most valuable part of a cocoa bean is rarely the bean. It is the grinding, the butter, the bar, the brand, the steps that add the margin. Africa grows the raw...
Quarantine and paperwork: the unglamorous keys to Africa’s China market
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Headlines about African farmers reaching Chinese consumers conjure images of avocados and chillies on supermarket shelves. The reality is quieter and more...
The Desert Miracle: Moakanyi Magazine | Vol 06 Issue 01 | June 2026
Our June 2026 issue is out. How Duma Boko is re-architecting Botswana - from a diamond-dependent rentier state into a sovereign-equity economy built to rival the Gulf - and what that turn asks of everyone doing business here. Botswana is doing something most resource...
Local seed systems
When imported seed and inputs are disrupted, local systems look less like nostalgia and more like insurance. Botswana has reason to take its own seed systems seriously.
Agri-data registries
Relief and finance both depend on knowing who farms what, where. Without accurate farm data, Botswana’s farmers risk being invisible to the support meant to reach them.
Pipeline-Builders: China-Africa Youth Contests Bet on Founders, Not Factories
A China-Africa youth entrepreneurship competition now runs across continents on digital economy and AI. The harder question is what happens to the founders after the final in Wuhan.
Livestock movement compliance
Disease-control protocols decide whether Botswana’s beef reaches a premium market or stays home. For a country built on cattle, livestock compliance is market access by another name.
Joint Labs: The Quiet Infrastructure China Is Building Without Concrete
Three new China-Africa joint laboratories in soil, crop pests and animal disease are infrastructure you cannot photograph – the kind that decides whether knowledge stays on the continent.
Farming as industry
Food shocks keep proving the same point: agriculture is not a soft social sector but a strategic industry. The Botswana that treats farming as infrastructure weathers the next shock better.
Climate-smart funding
Global lenders are steering capital toward climate-resilience projects that are bankable. For Botswana the lesson is sharp: a good idea is not enough – the project has to be ready to finance.
Flora of Kenya: How an Orchid Atlas Became a Knowledge-Economy Test
A volume cataloguing Kenya’s orchids, co-edited by Chinese and Kenyan scientists, is a real research output. Whether it builds Kenyan capacity or just Chinese citations is the deeper question.
Smallholder aggregation
Buyers want reliable volumes, not scattered surpluses. That preference is quietly pushing Botswana’s smallholders toward cooperatives – and toward tables they could never reach alone.
Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
Precision agriculture
Precision agriculture promises to do more with less – fewer inputs, better yields. For a water-scarce country like Botswana, that promise is less a luxury than a survival skill.
SADC food security
When global shocks ripple through food and capital markets, the countries that absorb them best are the ones that pooled their risk early. For Botswana, that means SADC.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Meat value chains
Regional food-security partnerships can open processing opportunities. For Botswana, a beef economy seeking to add value, the meat value chain is where regional demand and local ambition meet.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
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