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11/03/2026

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Africa Energy Indaba 2026 Celebrates Landmark Success with Presidential Keynote and Strong Continental Participation By AMI - March 11, 2026 0 64 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter AdvertisementThe 18th edition of the Africa Energy Indaba, held from 3–5 March 2026 at the Cape Town International Co...

04/03/2026

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Africa Inclusive leadership driving safer workplaces at Bühler Southern Africa By AMI - March 4, 2026 0 45 Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter AdvertisementJohannesburg (South Africa) 03 March 2026: International Women’s Day, observed on 8 March, calls for meaningful progress toward gender equalit...

13/11/2024

13/11/2024

Anglo Agriparts

Anglo Agriparts is a family run, father & son business based in Hampshire, England. We specialise in replacement parts and accessories for a wide range of modern, classic and vintage tractors including: Ford New Holland, Massey Ferguson, John Deere, Case International Harvester, Fiat, Fordson, Ferguson and David Brown.

The owner, and Father, Alastair McHarg, was an engineering apprentice at the age of 16. He has been involved in the International Tractor Parts business since 1972 and started his own company in 2001. This focused on OE business, supplying parts to original tractor manufacturers.

In 2013, along with his son John McHarg, they launched Anglo Agriparts as our aftermarket sector of the business. We're proud of our OEM heritage, which has allowed us to launch our aftermarket brand from our OEM supply base.

As a supplier to two of the top global agricultural Original Equipment Manufacturers, Anglo knows quality. Due to the volume nature of OEM business, Anglo are able to negotiate the most competitive pricing in order to give you guaranteed quality at the best prices.

As time has moved on, so has our business. We have grown in sales, staff and warehousing. In August 2015 we moved to our new 10,000 sqft. headquarters. Customers can speak with like minded enthusiasts, passionate about what they sell. We understand the business and understand your needs. We are always looking to expand our company and partnerships from around the world. “A company is nothing without it’s people”, and we can proudly say, we have built a strong knowledgeable team who understand the UK and export market and can provide a reliable, well established service.

John has taken Anglo into the next generation, commissioning an online retail site, developing new products, growing the warehouse and sales teams and developing trade accounts across the middle east and Africa. The family heritage remains strong with Alastair still greatly involved in the day to day running of the company.
This year Anglo launched our Next Generation Range, exclusively designed and developed for Anglo Agriparts. We are committed to continually investing in product development and sourcing the best quality manufacturers from around the globe.

13/11/2024

Welland Power Generators

Welland Power Ltd are one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of Diesel Generators. Having begun manufacturing in 1950. Building on 67 years of experience, their current product is built on the high standards set when the company was founded.

Welland Power generators can be used as the main power source for your application. Ranging from 7kVA to 2000kVA, their products can meet all their customers’ requirements. The Generators are offered as an open unit, on a base frame, or canopied in a sound-proofed enclosure. Larger generators are available as a containerised unit. The generators can be used on their own, synchronised together as part of a larger installation, or run as a backup to the local grid network.

Welland Power set themselves apart from competitors by manufacturing many of the components themselves. All canopies and base frames are produced at Welland Power’s factory. They also manufacture most their silencers and fuel tanks. Doing this ensures that their products are of the highest quality. This is different to most competitors who import such components from low-cost markets, where quality can be an issue.

Britain has always been the centre of excellence for power generation equipment and other industrial machinery - the same remains true today. Manufacturers in Britain, produce high quality products that consistently exceed customer expectations. Welland Power Ltd is one of these companies. All their products are built and designed in their modern UK factory, ensuring that the products are of the highest quality. Investment in the Welland production facility in the last 2 years has exceeded £1,500,000 an investment that has enabled them to double the production capacity.

Additional investments in laser fabrication equipment, automated material processing and precision CNC material forming equipment has increased repeatability, improved products aesthetics and allowed the processing of higher material grades to further improve durability, functionality and diversity.

Welland is a leading brand within the power generation industry. Specialising in worldwide export of complete generators and associated equipment, Welland is a name you can rely on and trust to deliver power when you need it most. The brand is built on a reputation for high quality power generation, demonstrated not only with words, but in over 60 years of action. Extensive market knowledge and commitment to customers has ensured Welland receive recommendations consistently from existing customers. Finally having a customer focused brand enables Welland to pursue continuous improvement by listening to customers’ requirements, feeding these back into new product designs and enhancing their reputation and brand beyond that of their competitors.

Using global brands such as Perkins Engines and Stamford Alternators ensures the quality of all products. The quality engines form the heart of all reliable diesel generating sets. As the largest component part, the engine is essential to the cost and reliability of the unit. Fuel optimised engines are essential due to the cost of fuel – all their engines are fuel optimised to produce the lowest running costs per kWh. This low cost of ownership is essential to value proposition allowing Welland generators to be a leading UK manufacturer of power generation equipment.

The high quality AC alternators supplied from Stamford come built with an efficient high quality design that provides excellent power quality. This high power quality allows you to use the generator in a variety of applications. Brushless, Synchronous and AVR controlled, the alternators allow for fine voltage/stability adjustment via the AVR and fast voltage response for changes in load. Each and every machine is tested to ensure the highest levels of reliability while the standard levels of protection meet or exceed international standards.

Welland Power sell mainly through a network of distributors. These local distributors use their local knowledge to support customers with all of their requirements. If your company is interested in becoming a Welland Power distributor, please contact [email protected]

13/11/2024

Energy for Agriculture: Africa's future

Firnas Shuman provides technical consulting, resource measurement, and environmental and social compliance to power generation and transmission projects. The firm employs a diverse, multinational group of experienced mechanical, electrical, civil and chemical engineers and environmental professionals, working to support the development of environmentally friendly energy sources in a cost effective way.

Firnas Shuman seeks to aid that transition by providing its services to those who plan, build, finance, own, or operate power generation and transmission infrastructure. The company have worked with governments, national utilities, international financial institutions, development agencies, private banks, and private developers.

The three main areas of activities of Firnas Shuman are:
 Technical consulting: The team provides owners, lenders, and independent engineer services to wind, solar, gas and small hydropower plants. Engaged in the entire process, from early feasibility studies, through to financial closure, construction supervision, commissioning, performance testing and witnessing, and operations monitoring.

 Resource measurement: Supplying, installing and operating meteorological stations in common as well as remote and harsh environments. We conduct full-service measurement campaigns to deliver high-quality data to our clients.

 Environmental and social compliance: Providing services to utilities and lenders, helping financiers and developers implement their projects to global environmental and social standards.

How does this relate to agriculture?
Agriculture has always been a very important activity in human history. Without it, there would be no supply food, no livestock and essentially no human life. The shared goal of every country is to have a stable agricultural sector which ensures food security for its population. Food security prevents dietary deficiency, which is believed to be one of the major problems that a lot of African countries are facing.

Energy and agriculture are intimately connected; crops grow using water, and water is moved to land from nearby water bodies (or extracted from ground wells) using energy. Therefore, a country's energy usage grows as more and more agricultural activity is pursued, and consequently agricultural development translates into an energy security issue.

In order to sustainably develop agriculture, countries need to emphasize on the utilization of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and biogas. This requires the assessment of a country's available renewable resources, project development, technical design and financial feasibility study and the expert capabilities to do all of this.

Based in Egypt, worked in over 25 countries all over Africa and Middle East, including (among others): Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Mauritius and South Africa. Firnas Shuman has the expertise to help clients, including the ones in the African agriculture sector, secure their energy needs in a sustainable way.

13/11/2024

Agriculture In Africa

Africa has a great potential not only to feed itself and eliminate hunger and food insecurity but also to be a global player in the food market. Agriculture forms a large portion of the economies of all African countries. As a sector it can contribute towards major continental priorities such as eradicating poverty and hunger, rapid industrialisation and creation of jobs. However Africa is seen with a begging bowl in order to feed its people. As a continent favoured with large bodies of water like Lake Victoria, Lake Mweru and Lake Malawi coupled with large rivers, Africa should be food sufficient. It is how Africa choses to use this God given resource to its advantage. In fact besides these water bodies Africa continues to be short of food with thousands of people dying of hunger in Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and many others needing food aid in Central and Southern Africa.

Experts say unless African governments prioritise agriculture, Africa will always remain food insecure.

In order to mitigate this problem, African governments through their continental body the African Union should come up with policies which will bind governments to prioritise agriculture. Africa has a lot of virgin land which if utilised would lead to an increase in its hectrage under production. The DRC in Central Africa together with its neighbouring countries have thousands of hectares which are not utilised economical which could turn the economies of these Central African countries around. A deliberate effort to use the water of the mighty Congo River for irrigation will help to improve the life styles of these people. Apart from all this the rainfall pattern of Central Africa is perfect for agriculture. It rains almost three quarters of the year in this region making the region an ideal agricultural hub.
Further west, the countries of West Africa whose staple food are yams produce cocoa which has seen their economies prosper. Ghana is the largest cocoa producing country in the world. This has created employment and industrialisation in Ghana. Apart from all this country, the country has managed to be food sufficient.

The same is said of those countries in the Maghreba Region which is North Africa, countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Lybia, Morocco and Algeria are doing well. Egypt has continued to produce food for its people using the water of the Nile. The Nile valley which is the agriculture centre of Egypt strives on irrigation. The country has invested heavily on irrigation equipment which has seen it produce in abundance. The spill offs of this investment is seen in industrialisation, transport and communication and other sectors of the economy. Despite being a desert country Egypt fares better than most African countries of one of Africa’s biggest economy.

Further down south, countries like South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Tswane, Lesotho, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe are favoured with good soils and boast of savannah grasslands which are good for cattle breeding. Again the region is ideal for cotton, to***co and many crops. South Africa which is the biggest economy in this region boasts of mechanised farms which produce a variety of crops throughout the year. The country is self-sufficient when it comes to food and manages to export its excess to Europe and neighbouring countries. Zimbabwe which has just seen a revival of its agriculture is ranked the biggest producer of to***co in Africa and is ranked 2nd after Brazil in the world. The country is also into cotton production which has enjoyed government support. The other countries in the region produce maize and other small grains with Malawi producing rice. Zimbabwe produces a third of its wheat requirement with the rest being imported into the country. The country has a potential of producing enough wheat to carter for its needs and export the surplus if its wheat cropping is not disturbed by erratic power cuts which affect water pumping for irrigation. However the region is drought prawn with droughts affecting the region almost every 5 years. The region could be Africa’s bread basket if resources are poured into agriculture. Currently governments in the region have come up with ways to consolidate their farming and improve the existing structures in countries like Zimbabwe and South Africa. While in Zambia Malawi and Mozambique there is need to intensify irrigation to enhance productivity.

Botswana on the other end is a country which is more into cattle production. This has enabled it to be a leader in the region in this regard. South Africa and Zimbabwe are also meat producing nations. Botswana exports its meat to Europe the same with South Africa while Zimbabwe cannot export due to the export ban imposed on it by the European Union.
As can be seen Africa is capable of feeding itself without relying on hand-outs from foreign donors. At the same time more industries to deal with the primary produce can be started thus creating employment. Agriculture is the backbone of the African economy and it is expected to grow tremendously with the support of its governments.