A delegation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) visited the Botswana Mercantile Exchange (BMX) Office in Gaborone as part of a collaborative effort to explore potential areas of collaboration and BMX support for the Botswana Livestock Commercialisation Project (BoLCoP).
On Wednesday, 14 October 2026, a delegation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) visited the Botswana Mercantile Exchange (BMX) Office in Gaborone as part of a collaborative effort to explore potential areas of collaboration and BMX support for the Botswana Livestock Commercialisation Project (BoLCoP).The IFAD delegation led by the Country Manager for Botswana, Ms Edith Kirumba.
The visit focused on several strategic agriculture and financial objectives, including opportunities to align BMX’s mandate of facilitating transparent price discovery in commodity markets with IFAD’s BoLCoP’s objectives of strengthening livestock commercialisation and improving market participation among livestock producers and other value chain stakeholders in Botswana.
Since the exchange’s started operations, the BMX have engaged with several Developmental Partner Institutions operating in Botswana including United Nation Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, The World Bank Group, and the European Union ( EU), to explore partnership for modernizing Botswana’s agricultural markets .