Malawi’s next food shock may begin with input costs
El Niño risk and expensive fertiliser expose the mechanism that makes Malawi vulnerable: weather pressure becomes an economic problem when farmers cannot afford the inputs needed to protect yields. Malawi’s agricultural risk is not only a weather story. It is an...
Input financing
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A maize farmer outside Pitsane does not usually fail because the rains do not come. More often, the farmer fails because the money to buy fertiliser and fuel arrives a...
Beef export protection
Farming - Food Systems & Sustainability · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Beef is one of the few things Botswana sells to the world on its own terms, which is exactly why it is so exposed. The country's economy remains vulnerable to...
Food-price index watch
Farming - Agri-Finance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 For a country that grows little of what it eats, a global price index is a local forecast. The FAO food price index tracks the cost of food on world markets, and for Botswana's...
Fertiliser-cost exposure
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A farmer in Botswana feels a Gulf supply shock long before the news reaches the till. When Middle East disruption threatened fertiliser exports and pushed up African...
Commodity negotiators
After S&P downgraded Botswana and warned the diamond sector faces global headwinds, the country’s commodity negotiators carry a heavier load – resource diplomacy now demands tougher bargaining.
Financial strategists
After a sovereign downgrade and tighter budgets, cash-flow discipline moved from the finance office to the boardroom, and the financial strategists who master it are setting themselves apart.
Climate entrepreneurs
Renewables momentum and food-security shocks are opening real space for Botswana’s climate entrepreneurs – the founders building businesses where energy, water and food meet a warming environment.
Tech educators
As AI-led demand reshapes the skills employers need, Botswana’s tech educators and training providers move from the margins to the centre of the workforce question.
Logistics entrepreneurs
With global crude markets mired in discounts and Middle East supply ramping up, Botswana’s logistics entrepreneurs are running their businesses under constant fuel and corridor pressure.
Export champions
World trade rose again in April, a sign of resilience that rewards the Botswana founders who understand markets far beyond their own borders.
Policy analysts
After a rating downgrade and tighter debt ceilings, reading policy stopped being a civil-servant’s job and became a business skill – and policy analysts are the rising stars who can teach it.
Construction executives
Botswana’s energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman put a new class of construction executive in the spotlight – the people who turn signed agreements into delivered infrastructure.
Retail founders
Inflation and consumer pressure forced Botswana’s retail founders into a new pricing discipline, even as the national budget projected an economic rebound to come.
Tourism operators
As stagflation fears faded and fresh buyers returned to South African assets, Botswana’s tourism operators read the regional shift for what it means to hotel and lodge demand.
Women in energy and mining
As Botswana opens new mineral and energy sectors beyond diamonds, the question is whether their leadership pipelines will include women from the start or repeat old exclusions.
Digital-payment builders
Research on African users’ trust concerns with digital payments offers hard leadership lessons for fintech founders building the rails of a cash-light Botswana.
Agribusiness operators
Botswana’s farmers and processors faced input-cost and food-security pressure as the global food price index stayed elevated, putting agribusiness leaders on the front line of affordability.
Mining explorers
Junior and state-linked explorers became front-line players in Botswana’s push to expand exploration beyond diamonds, turning a policy ambition into ground-level prospecting.
Energy dealmakers
Renewable energy between Oman and Botswana moved from talk to signed agreements, putting a new class of cross-border dealmakers at the centre of the diversification story.
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