Dear Member, Welcome to the September members update. EAGC continues to pursue its vision of being “the leading voice for the grain industry in Africa”. This is through its four key functions ; structuring grain trade systems, provision of market information, policy and advocacy work as well as capacity building through the Grain Institute. In … Read more
in 2017, EAGC is marking its 10th anniversary, celebrating ten years of achievements in advocating for and facilitating an efficient, structured, inclusive and profitable grain trade in the Eastern Africa region, and emerging a decade stronger! In the first African Grain Trade Summit in 2005, a resolution was passed to form a regional umbrella organization … Read more
ATPAF_ESA_Bulletin_Vol_1 Informing Regional Agricultural Trade Policy in Eastern and Southern Africa. Download Here
Risk Management Mechanisms Towards Structured Grain Trade and Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa The policy dialogue, attended by over forty (40) key stakeholders from the ESA region, received contributions from delegates representing the private and public sector stakeholders. Further, experiences from other regions such as Europe and the Americas on risk management were … Read more
Making Public Policy Work for Agricultural Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa In this edition, we explore a number of policy issues that continue to present serious challenges to the grain sector and the entire agriculture and agribusiness sector at large. We revisit the issue of the involvement of Government in agricultural trade, noting that … Read more