Africa supplied 58.4% of global macadamia exports by value in 2024 — $414 million of the most expensive tree nut traded at scale. Kenya, the world’s third-largest producer, commands the highest export unit price among tracked origins at $17.67 per kilogram. The market is growing at 9% annually toward $3 billion by 2031. And China — which held a 3% global supply share in 2016 — now holds more than 20% and is growing at 25% per year. The premium window is real. So is the threat. What Kenya does in the next three years will determine whether it leads or follows the macadamia market’s next chapter.
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Rose Petals, Rosewater, Rosehip Tea and Rose Essential Oil: The Complete Guide | Fava Herb Botanical Intelligence Series — Fava Herb Rose Petals, Rosewater, Rosehip Tea & Rose Essential Oil Four remarkable products from a single extraordinary flower — each harvested from a different part of the plant at a different moment in its life […]
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Even though Kenya governs just 6% of Lake Victoria’s surface, local silver cyprinid catches alone made up more than half of the lake’s total fish landings in the early 2010s, and by 2020 estimates put dagaa/omena/mukene’s share of total lake landings at 72%. This is, by volume, the dominant fishery on Lake Victoria — larger than Nile perch, larger than tilapia
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Two products from one Kenyan tree. The oil, cold-pressed from its seeds, is one of the most stable carrier oils in botanical cosmetics. The leaf powder is among the most nutrient-dense plant foods documented in nutritional science. Here is the science behind both.
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Cobalt is not the only Africa-dominated battery-adjacent mineral where a producing government has decided raw export is a bad trade.
Cashew Nuts and Cashew Apple Juice: Benefits and Complete African Guide | [Your Store Name] Cashew One Fruit, Two Treasures Cashew Nuts& Cashew Apple Juice:The Complete Guide The world-famous nut everyone knows, and the almost-unknown fruit it grows on — richer in vitamin C than oranges. Cultivated across Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast. Updated: […]
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Nearly 3.5 million sheep and goats leave Somaliland’s port of Berbera each year, most of them within weeks of the Hajj. It is one of the Horn of Africa’s largest formal livestock export flows — and one of its least equitable, capturing most of its value long after it leaves the herder’s hands.
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East African Shea Nilotica: Cooking Oil, Skin Butter and the Shea Fruit | [Your Store Name] Nilotica East Africa’s Own Shea Shea Nilotica:Cooking Oil, Skin Butterand the Shea Fruit South Sudan and Uganda’s wild shea tree — used as a cooking fat for centuries before the world ever heard of shea butter, with a sweet, […]
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Kenya’s poultry sector looks, on paper, like one of the region’s more modern livestock industries — organised integrators, branded day-old chicks, commercial feed mills. In practice, it is one of the most financially fragile: a single input line, feed, determines whether an entire production cycle turns a profit, and the sector’s biggest competitive threats come not from disease or drought but from trade policy on two fronts at once.
Metals MIning, Trade
Copper: The Metal Under Everything. Running Through One Narrow Belt in Central Africa
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The Metal Under Everything: Copper, the AI Supercycle, and Uganda’s Copperbelt Comeback | Fava Herb Metals & Mining Report Fava Herb Commodities Intelligence Nairobi · October 2026 Metals & Mining Report — Issue IV of VII — Copper The Metal Under Everything Every AI data centre, every EV, every grid upgrade on Earth needs it, […]
