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How Can Africa Conquer Challenges and Capture Market Potential in the Halal Food Industry?

Posted on April 17, 2023

Agriculture and the Halal food sector play an important role in the economies of many African countries. Despite its growth potential, the sector still faces several c...

End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility with DNA Traceability Technology Launched by OneAgrix and Ecosystem Partners

Posted on December 15, 2022

Dubai, UAE,December 13, 2022: OneAgrix, Inexto, OriginTrail and their ecosystem partners announce a pioneering and comprehensive farm-to-fork solution, tracing beef...

Digitalization of End-to-End Food Supply Chain with DNA Traceability Technology Launched by OneAgrix and Its Ecosystem Partners

Posted on December 14, 2022

Dubai, UAE, December 13, 2022: OneAgrix, Inexto, OriginTrail and their ecosystem partners announce a pioneering and comprehensive farm-to-retail solution, tracing beef fr...

3 Exciting Food Packaging Innovations to Watch for

Posted on November 3, 2022

Food packaging innovations are continuing to improve beyond the basic container. Some recent innovations include sustainability, food traceability features, smart labels ...

How to combat the Global Food Crisis by supporting people, open trade flows, and local harvest?

Posted on October 6, 2022| Posted in Food crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our world in ways we could never have imagined. One of the most overwhelming impacts of the pandemic has been the Global Food Crisis....

Digital Ecosystems will transform African economies under the AfCFTA

Posted on November 27, 2020

The Global Food System The US$8 trillion global supply chain is adapting to a post Covid-19 world becoming the new norm. Covid-19’s global dislocation has further stre...

Digital transformation, not Covid, is the biggest challenge to food supply chains.

Posted on November 3, 2020

For one day at least, food security was back in the spotlight. That our shelves have remained fully stocked (save two weeks in early March) throughout the outbreak of Cov...

Commodity talk: Cocoa Trade at popular Cocoa hub in ancient Osun state

Posted on December 17, 2019

This time, my journey took me exploring one of the commodity trade process in #Osun state. Osun is a poor ancient state known to be the birth origin of #Yoruba tribe, Wes...

Capturing the Next China Opportunity: Halal 2.0 Part 3

Posted on March 10, 2019

We have Islamic equity indexes by index providers, like DJ Indexes, S&P, MSCI, etc. (Full disclosure, I lead a team at DJ Indexes in 1999 to launch the world’s Islamic ...

Capturing the Next China Opportunity: Halal 2.0 Part 2

Posted on February 28, 2019

The 56 Muslim countries are generally a net importer of food, led by regions like the six climate challenged countries of the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qa...