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Country Indicators

Angola
GDP:
US$245.2 billion
(2006 est.)
Annual Growth:
23.4.1% (2007 est)
Inflation:
11.8% (2007)
Major industries:
Oil and diamonds
Major trading partners:
Imports into Angola,
South Korea, Portugal,
US, China.
Destination of exports:
US, China, France,
Chile.
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Zambia

GDP:
US$ 10.1bn (2006)
Annual Growth:
6% (2007 actual)
Inflation:
8.9% (2007 actual)
Major Industries:
Copper, other mining activities,
wholesale and retail trade,
agriculture. manufacturing,
service industries, and tourism.
Major trading partners:
South Africa, EU and Japan
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South Africa
GDP:
US$274.5 billion (2007)
Annual Growth:
5% (2007).
Inflation:
6.5% (2006)
Major Industries:
Mining (world's largest
producer of platinum,
gold, chromium),
automobile assembly,
machinery, textile, iron
& steel, chemicals,
fertiliser, foodstuffs.
Financial services;
Manufacturing;
Wholesale & Retail Trade;
Transport, Storage,
Communication; Mining
Other Major trading partners:
US, UK, Germany, Japan
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Senegal

GDP:
US$10.8bn (2006 est)
Annual Growth:
4.0% (2006 est)
Inflation:
2.0% (2006 est)
Main economic sectors:
Agricultural products
(groundnuts, millet,
corn, sorghum, rice,
cotton, market gardening
and livestock),
fish processing,
phosphate mining,
fertiliser production,
petroleum refining,
construction materials
and tourism.
Exports:
Fish, groundnuts,
petroleum products,
phosphates, cotton.
Main trade partners:
EU, United States and
India

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Rwanda

GDP:
US$2.8 billion (2007)
Annual Growth:
6%(2008 est)
Inflation:
6% (2007 est)
Major Exports:
Coffee, tea, coltan,
cassiterite, fruit juice
Major Trading Partners:
Exports:
China, Germany.
Imports:
Kenya, Uganda, Germany,
Belgium.

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Malawi
GDP:
US$3.441 billion (2007 est.)
Annual Growth:
5.7% (2007 est.)
Inflation:
8% (2007 est.)
Major Industries:
Tobacco, tea, sugar, sawmill
products, cement and
consumer goods.
Main Trading Partners:
South Africa, Germany, US,
Zimbabwe, Mozambique,
Netherlands, UK, Japan
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Mozambique

GDP:
US$8.132 bn (2007 estimate)
Annual Growth:
7.5% (2007 estimate)
Inflation:
8% (2007 estimate)
Major Industries:
Aluminium (processing only);
natural gas; hydro power,
prawns and fish (45%);
cotton (2%); cashew nuts (9%);
timber, sugar and
copra (14%); agriculture
Major trading partners:
Exports:
Spain, South Africa, US,
Belgium, Italy
Imports:
South Africa, Australia,
Portugal.

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Ghana
GDP:
US$12billion (2006 est)
Annual Growth:
6.0% (2006 est)
Inflation:
10% (2006 est)
Major Industries:
Cocoa, gold and timber.
Major trading partners:
EU, USA, Nigeria,
Togo
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Credits
Source of Information:
British Foreign and
Commonwealth Office
 

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Newsflash

ASNAPP has just reached the $ 1 million mark of vegetables sales accruing to small-medium scale farmers in Zambia. The $ 1 million mark was reached in June 2009 following what began as a project in 2006 to bring opportunities to the door steps of emerging community agri-entrepreneurs. Stay tuned for details soon.

 
Ghana can have several crop-parallels to cocoa
Monday, 29 June 2009
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Capacity development will unlock the potential of these crops

Cocoa is the leading traditional crop of many West African countries, including Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon.  The commodity is one of the world’s highest valued agricultural products and has traditionally been the anchor of socio-economic activities in West Africa for several decades. Until recently, when Cote d’Ivoire assumed the title, Ghana was the world’s leading producer nation of cocoa – the crop which holds the secret to chocolate production.

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Stellenbosch University Signs MoU with KNUST, Ghana
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
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KNUST Delegation

Stellenbosch University, South Africa, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. This brings the number of African universities with whom SU has institutional agreements to five.
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Mushrooms for Economic Empowerment in Malawi
Tuesday, 05 May 2009
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Oyster Pink Mushroom
"There is a better future for us in mushroom production”. This is how the all-female, 44-member group at Chimphangu and Chinsapo, off the Likuni road in  Malawi summarize their expectation from a mushroom project being implemented by ASNAPP in collaboration with several local NGO’s and with sponsorship form the USAID.  

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Vision

To expand economic opportunities for rural communities by using world class science, technologies, partnerships and business approaches to develop and enhance Africa’s competitive advantage in the Natural Plant Products industry.

Mission
To help create and develop successful African agribusinesses in the natural products sector, providing income, employment & development, through environmentally and socially conscious practices to produce high quality natural products for local, regional and overseas markets

Services (The Six Pillars of ASNAPP)

  • Market Development
  • Enterprise Development
  • Quality Control / Assurance
  • Applied Research and Technology Transfer 
  • Capacity Building
  • Policy Advocacy

Countries of Operations

  • Ghana
  • Rwanda
  • Senegal
  • South Africa
  • US – Rutgers University
  • Zambia

Satellite Countries

  • Angola
  • Malawi
  • Mozambique

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