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 Watching workers poke avocados from the treetops in an orchard owned by Kenyan agriculture firm Kakuzi, managing director Chris Flowers revels in the thought some might soon go to the crown jewel of emerging consumer markets:

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Over the years there has been a gradual increase in reported food fraud cases throughout the world and, to a lesser extent, in South Africa.

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Horn of Africa countries are facing some of the most severe drought conditions in decades, raising concerns that smaller harvests of principal grain crops will exacerbate food insecurity, and necessitate far higher amounts of food aid and imports. 

The global agriculture sector is one of the world’s biggest sources of climate-corrosive gases. Bovine belching and flatulence produce the powerful greenhouse gas methane, which is around 80 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere in the first twenty years after its release.

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Small and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses in east and southern Africa are getting a raw deal.

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You can count on the fact that chocolate will, as always, be a mainstay of Valentine’s Day.