WORLD over, several African countries have been pursuing sector-driven industrial economic growth.Ethiopia, for example, has identified agriculture and therefore pursued the Agriculture Led Industrial development.Indeed, Ethiopia by 2018 had been growing its economy by 12...

As more young people shy away from engaging in the agriculture sector, the sector is left with no choice but to work with women and older people alone. With this attitude, the transformation of this...

GREEN financing for Bankable Nature Solutions (BNS) is taking a prominent role in the global and Zambia’s local business and economic development.Earlier this month, I was privileged to participate in the green financing workshop programme...

Policy Analysis by James Muyanwa – DETERMINED to safeguard land and empower his citizens, late first Republican President Kenneth Kaunda came up with sweeping land policy measures in 1968, four years after attaining political independence...

Policy analysis by James Muyanwa – TODAY, we continue focusing on the manifestos of entities participating in this year’s general elections, as embarked on April 14, this year. This is in line with what was...

By MAYA NTANDA – THE power outages experienced in the past due to heavy concentration of power plants in the Southern part of the country which is prone to major droughts, is lesson enough to...

TANZANIA, like Zambia, faces insurmountable challenges in its edible oil sector. Imagine, in 2018, Tanzania produced 1.6 million tonnes edible oil, which represented a sharp decline by 75 per cent compared to 2017 production figures....

THE edible oil sector in Zambia is a ‘more than meets the eye,’ complex, business sector. Remarkably, as this discourse will shortly look at, it is currently one of the most complex business sectors in...

BUSINESS TRENDS by GRANDY NTUMBO – THE cement manufacturing sector turns out to be one of the most complex, unique and interesting competitive business environments in Zambia as well as in the region. This could...

By Maimbolwa Mulikelela – HOSTING one of the busiest and biggest export and import border points in the country, the Northern region will continue to be critical in revenue collection for the country. Nakonde border...