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One of the world’s main producers of oranges, Egypt is also the second-biggest exporter of the fruit. Oranges account for 30% of fruit production and 65% of citrus production, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

What can be done to boost domestic production in line with rising demand for staple commodities?

Hopes are rising that long-awaited reforms of state-owned enterprises and government initiatives can help Indonesia’s agriculture sector rebound from a year of commodity price shocks, which have taken their toll on the country’s biggest exports, particularly palm oil. 

Despite a decline in agricultural production as a percentage of GDP in the past decade, agriculture remains a key component of South Africa’s economy and one of the country’s largest employers. In the latter capacity, in particular, the sector has been touted as a major contributor to the government’s long-term economic and social development strategy, the National...

In January 2014 Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, delivered a speech to a property owners association in Mpumalanga province. “The restoration of land to rightful owners is one of the biggest responsibilities you gave the democratic government,” he said. “We have made a lot of progress, but work still continues.” Land reform – a central pillar of the government’s...

South Africa is currently one of the most food secure countries in Africa. The nation was ranked second on the continent and 44th in the world in the most recent iteration of the Global Food Security Index (GFSI), which was published in April 2014 and is based on data collected in the first quarter of 2014.

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