FarmGate Pulse https://farmgate.site/pulse/ Weekly, data-backed African agro market briefs. Five Days at Anchor, 9% in a Week: Freight and FX Are Eating Africa's Agro Margins https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-freight-fx-logistics-african-agro-trade/ https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-freight-fx-logistics-african-agro-trade/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ocean rates jumped again in July - Drewry's index up 9% in a single week to $4,530/40ft - while Lagos and Mombasa vessels sat 4-5 days at anchor and roughly 42 African currencies kept skimming an estimated $5bn a year in convertibility costs off cross-border trade. The community voice this window was forwarders selling reliability over price, and Kenya's clearing agents putting logistics at the centre of the economy. Cocoa Spikes, Cashew Slips: Africa's Cash Crops Are Winning on Price and Losing on Value https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-african-cash-crops-value-capture/ https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-african-cash-crops-value-capture/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cocoa punched toward $6,300/MT while Ivory Coast's mid-crop farmgate was cut 57% and cashew farmgate slipped 6% - and the loudest African voices this month are not talking about price at all, they are talking about who owns the processing. West Africa's Grain Crisis Is Policy-Made: Ghana's Export Ban Meets a Price Crash https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-west-africa-ban-driven-collapse/ https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-west-africa-ban-driven-collapse/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ghana's export ban severed regional demand just as prices collapsed, Nigerian corn halved on a strong naira - and traders are doing price discovery on foot at Dawanau. The Global South Squeeze: Cheap Rice Today, a Fertilizer Bomb Tomorrow https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-global-south-squeeze/ https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-global-south-squeeze/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Market-by-market: India's rice glut, Thailand's export slide, China's ambiguous buying, South America's basis absorbing shocks, and a 60% urea spike loading next year's shortage. East Africa Heads Into Its Biggest Maize Surplus in a Decade https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-east-africa-maize-surplus/ https://farmgate.site/pulse/2026-07-east-africa-maize-surplus/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A 5.5M-tonne regional surplus is crashing Kenyan prices while export permits throttle cross-border flows - what traders are actually saying.