May 21, 2026

The long road ahead: From the farm to the table

Go to any market in Accra on a weekday morning. Watch a woman arrange her tomatoes into neat little piles, pricing each one carefully. Ask her why tomatoes cost so much, and she will probably wave her hand in a general direction towards the farms, towards a road you have never driven on and probably […]

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How Zimbabwe tobacco farmers remain indebted to Chinese companies

In a vast field, rows of vibrant green tobacco plants reached toward the bush, marking a remarkable recovery of the crop in Zimbabwe, primarily driven by smallholders working under contracts with Chinese companies.  Zimbabwe’s tobacco production is rising to all-time highs as farmers seek more resilient, lucrative crops. However, contract farming, frequently for Chinese companies,

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