agriculture markets in Africa

Arua market vendors stranded over relocation area

Arua market vendors stranded over relocation area

Arua market vendors are stranded about the failure by government to allocate them a new relocation place as they plan to develop this market into a modern structure. The secretary general of the market authority Innocent Maneno says it is now three years but government has totally failed to allocate them a place yet construction is about to […]

Smallholder farmers expect more from World Food Program Purchase for Progress

Elias Simuntu is today one of the most successful farmers in Uganda. Apart from being assured of stable income every farming season, Simuntu leads a farmers group that sells food commodities to WFP and other major food buyers. But not all farmers are able to sell to WFP even after it launched the Purchase for progress to buy direct from farmers.