Policy makers work blind without thorough analyses to predict the outcome of their decisions. Without proper analyses and statistics, strategies can be misdirected by the interests or even the good intentions of politicians ...

Irrespective of result of the next year's election, the new government will still face the same problems in agriculture.

Supermarkets have expanded rapidly in SADC during the last decade, leading to fears that small-scale farmers and food processors could be excluded from access to urban markets. To asses the impact of supermarkets chains ...