Bourse Africa

The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), established in 2008 by the Ethiopian government, was Africa's first regulated multi-commodity exchange and a transformative initiative designed to modernise agricultural market infrastructure. ECX provides transparent, rules-based trading for coffee, sesame, maize, wheat, and haricot beans. As Ethiopia is the birthplace of arabica coffee and a top global coffee producer, ECX plays a critical role in price discovery and export logistics for specialty Ethiopian coffees, benefiting millions of smallholder farmers.

The East Africa Exchange (EAX), launched in 2014 and headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda, is a regional commodity exchange designed to integrate the agricultural markets of East Africa. EAX provides electronic spot-trading infrastructure for staple agricultural commodities including maize, beans, and coffee, with a warehouse receipt system to facilitate agricultural finance. Backed by the Rwanda Development Board and supported by international development partners, EAX aims to reduce information asymmetry and post-harvest losses across the East African Community (EAC) region.

The Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) is Kenya's primary auction market for specialty coffee, operating under the Kenya Coffee Traders Association and the Nairobi Coffee Exchange Act. NCE conducts weekly Tuesday auctions in which buyers bid for certified lots of Kenyan arabica coffee, graded and described by Kenya's Coffee Board grading system (AA, AB, C, PB, and others). Kenya is world-renowned for producing some of the finest washed arabica coffees, and the NCE auction system determines the global benchmark prices for Kenyan specialty coffee.

The Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange (ZMX) is a Harare-based commodity exchange providing trading services for agricultural commodities critical to Zimbabwe's economy, including maize, tobacco, and other staple and export crops. ZMX was developed to help rebuild market infrastructure for Zimbabwe's agricultural sector following the country's economic recovery. The exchange facilitates price discovery, warehouse receipt systems, and commodity-backed financing for Zimbabwean agricultural producers and traders.