Markets & Commodities

Côte d'Ivoire produces 1.1 million tonnes of natural rubber annually, overtaking cocoa as the country's largest export by volume. New plantation in...

Côte d'Ivoire produced 1.1 million tonnes of natural rubber in 2023, overtaking cocoa as the country's largest export by volume. New electric vehic...

Africa produces 12 million tonnes of sugar annually and imports 5 million more. Zambia's Illovo expansion and Ethiopia's state estates are targeting e...

Kenya once supplied 70 percent of global pyrethrum. Production collapsed in the 2000s but has recovered to 5,000 tonnes under a reformed marketing str...

Zimbabwe produced 110,000 tonnes of flue-cured tobacco in 2023/24, generating $820 million. The crop is half its 2000 peak but improving steadily unde...