Export prospects for Africa's tea sector will be mixed

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Oil Pipeline ◽  
Ethical Sourcing

Significance The move will boost confidence in a sector beset by weak global prices -- averaging 2.26 dollars per kilogramme in the first quarter of 2016, compared to 2.98 dollars per kilogramme in 2015. The low prices are spurring governments to intervene. Impacts Tensions between Kenya and its neighbours over an oil pipeline may hurt cooperation on other export infrastructure projects. The African Growth and Opportunity Act forum later this year will provide a platform to boost SSA agriculture exports to the United States. In South Africa, planned legislation to limit the size of farms will deter investment from the agricultural sector. The entry into SSA of Western cafe chains, such as Starbucks and Paul, will increase demand for premium tea brands. Concerns over ethical sourcing practices will grow in Western economies, but enforcing 'fair trade' practices in SSA will face hurdles.

A cross-national analysis of PhD models

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Yasmine Dominguez-Whitehead ◽  
Felix Maringe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Supervision Models ◽  
Phd Supervision ◽  
National Analysis ◽  
Cross National

PurposeThis paper provides a cross-national analysis of PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in order to compare PhD programs and their practices.Design/methodology/approachA comparative approach is employed, which systematically interrogates PhD supervision models, milestones and examination procedures in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States via a comprehensive review of the practices and literature.FindingsThe findings indicate the ramifications of the different approaches and highlight the benefits and drawbacks associated with the different models.Originality/valueBy making explicit the dominant supervision models, milestones and examination procedures that exist in the United Kingdom, South Africa and the United States, the authors shed light on the somewhat obscure path to earning a PhD degree.

Russia will aim to strengthen agricultural sector

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Milk Products ◽  
Russian Agriculture ◽  
Vladimir Putin

Subject Russian agriculture Significance On June 24 President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to prolong Russia's food embargo in retaliation for the continuation of Western sanctions. Putin said the counter-sanctions would benefit domestic producers. The extension will last until August 2016. Russia's food embargo was initially introduced in August 2014 against EU members, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway. The August 2014 embargo applied to most imports of fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and dairy and milk products. Impacts Russia will remain a large global exporter of grain, but increased investment will be needed, particularly on machinery. Moscow may expand the embargo to new sectors to inflict greater pain on Western producers. Simultaneously, it will seek to increase agricultural ties with non-Western markets to ensure food security.

Mining supply disruptions mask mounting demand fears

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Iron Ore ◽  
The United States ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supply Disruptions ◽  
Copper Mines ◽  
Southern Neighbour

Subject COVID-19-related disruptions to the mining supply chain. Significance The severity and length of COVID-19-related lockdowns has varied by country, but disruptions have quickly affected production. While West Africa, Russia and initially Mexico struggled to define a clear policy for mining, strict initial prohibition hit production in New Zealand, Peru, Argentina, South Africa, Ecuador and India in late March and into April. Spain, Australia, Chile, Quebec and Finland stuck to the middle ground, phasing policies in and out and permitting selected activity. Impacts Key plants, including iron ore mines in Australia and copper mines in Chile and the United States, are seeing little disruption so far. Mongolia, the first nation to close its borders with China, has also been the first to resume coal exports to its southern neighbour. Western Australia banned some fly-in, fly-out commuting arrangements to mines; similar such bans could persist elsewhere for months.

Myanmar peace talks will make little progress

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
China And India ◽  
National League

Significance The conference is designed to resolve conflicts between the politically powerful military and several ethnically based armed groups. The talks come months before Myanmar holds a general election, which will likely result in State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) retaining control of the civilian portion of government. Impacts China will continue to support different ethnic insurgent groups while also delivering on infrastructure projects in Myanmar. Myanmar will likely become more embroiled in rivalries between China and the United States, and China and India. As violence endures in parts of the country, the number of internally displaced persons will increase.

Swaziland faces prolonged period of instability

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Condition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Custody ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Opposition Movement

Significance One person was shot in the head and left in critical condition. The opposition movement has grown dramatically this year following the death in late May of law student Thabani Nkomonye in police custody, which sparked mass protests. Impacts Failure to resolve the crisis could lead to increasingly radical and more violent strategies by pro-democracy protesters. The persistence of mass opposition may encourage Mswati to escalate repression, moving the country closer to a police state. The United States is unlikely to be willing to intervene directly without the support of powerful regional players such as South Africa.

India is not yet ready for alliances

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Defence System ◽  
Strategic Autonomy

Significance Delhi has long been wary of formal alliances, though, as it insists on strategic autonomy. Impacts Delhi and Washington may pursue joint infrastructure projects in South Asia. Stronger India-US ties will bring China and Pakistan closer together and worsen tensions between Islamabad and Delhi. The United States is unlikely to place sanctions on India for agreeing to purchase the S-400 missile defence system from Russia.

Alexander Hamilton and the Early Republic in Edwardian Imperial Thought

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick M. Kirkwood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
George Washington ◽  
American Federation ◽  
Treaty Of Versailles ◽  
The Federalist ◽  
The Federalist Papers

In the first decade of the twentieth century, a rising generation of British colonial administrators profoundly altered British usage of American history in imperial debates. In the process, they influenced both South African history and wider British imperial thought. Prior usage of the Revolution and Early Republic in such debates focused on the United States as a cautionary tale, warning against future ‘lost colonies’. Aided by the publication of F. S. Oliver's Alexander Hamilton (1906), administrators in South Africa used the figures of Hamilton and George Washington, the Federalist Papers, and the drafting of the Constitution as an Anglo-exceptionalist model of (modern) self-government. In doing so they applied the lessons of the Early Republic to South Africa, thereby contributing to the formation of the Union of 1910. They then brought their reconception of the United States, and their belief in the need for ‘imperial federation’, back to the metropole. There they fostered growing diplomatic ties with the US while recasting British political history in-light-of the example of American federation. This process of inter-imperial exchange culminated shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles when the Boer Generals Botha and Smuts were publicly presented as Washington and Hamilton reborn.

Global Power Shift

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberts Cynthia ◽  
Leslie Armijo ◽  
Saori Katada
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
Extensive Data ◽  
Power Shift ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Rise Of China

This chapter evaluates multiple dimensions of the global power shift from the incumbent G5/G7 powers to the rising powers, especially the members of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). Taking note of alternative conceptualizations of interstate “power,” the text maps the redistribution of economic capabilities from the G7 to the BRICS, most particularly the relative rise of China and decline of Japan, and especially Europe. Given these clear trends in measurable material capabilities, the BRICS have obtained considerable autonomy from outside pressures. Although the BRICS’ economic, financial, and monetary capabilities remain uneven, their relative positions have improved steadily. Via extensive data analysis, the chapter finds that whether one examines China alone or the BRICS as a group, BRICS members have achieved the necessary capabilities to challenge the global economic and financial leadership of the currently dominant powers, perhaps even the United States one day.

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