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[Ashley Boag] Technology enables African smallholder farmers to access better information, improve crop yields, secure better prices for their produce, and improve their livelihoods... read |
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| Donna Hornby Farm dwellers are not simply wage workers. They identify intimately with the land they live on... read | | | Aiming to give prominence to the work that farmers and agriculturists do in South African agriculture, the Agricultural Writers SA recently hosted awards to honour... read | | |
| "The African Agri Investment Indaba seeks to strengthen the continent's agriculture sector and identify investment and growth opportunities. Africa is poised to play a significant role in ensuring global food security..." read | | |
| Tammy Foyn Tongaat Hulett, SA's largest sugar producer, is starting to see the positive effects of the end of a devastating drought that hit its operations in KwaZulu-Natal, Zimbabwe and Mozambique... read | | |
| Thin Lei Win The tracking technology used to halt the deadly Ebola and Zika viruses could now be turned against wheat rust as scientists try new ways to stop the fungus devastating world grain crops... read | | | Dirk Swanevelder, Annemarie Gous, Connal D. Eardle Pollinators are the unsung heroes of food production and some indigenous pollinators are under threat... read | | |
| Kenya exported passion fruit in the 90s and early 2000s, however, due to pest management challenges, the country has seen a decline in the production of the highly profitable crop... read | | |
| Unless sustainable, climate-smart ways of producing, transporting, processing and consuming food are adopted globally, emissions from agriculture sectors are set to increase, further contributing to climate change... read | | | Landowners who want to remove pine trees from their property with the hope of seeing fynbos grow again should do so before the trees are more than 30 years old. If you wait any longer, it's less likely that any fynbos seeds will be left in the soil... read | | |
| Lauren Hartzenberg Retailers and consumers alike are readying themselves for snaking queues and extended shopping hours in-store and online this Black Friday, falling on 24 November this year... read | |
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