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Bird flu vaccines approved for South African poultry

Bird flu vaccines approved for South African poultry

Shoprite and Checkers’ Market Days offers local gardeners a platform to scale

Shoprite and Checkers’ Market Days offers local gardeners a platform to scale

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Private water trading faces total ban under 2026 NWA Amendment BillJames Ross, Alysa Buntin and Emily Raubenheimer

SA steps up FMD response to safeguard livestock exports

SA steps up FMD response to safeguard livestock exports

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SADC urged to fast-track fertiliser reforms as food insecurity persists

Bird flu vaccines approved for South African poultry

Bird flu vaccines approved for South African poultry

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Shoprite and Checkers’ Market Days offers local gardeners a platform to scale

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SADC subsidies fail to ease rural poverty and soil deterioration, study finds

12 Jul 2016

Training programme to improve access to fertilisers and smallholder development

Training programme to improve access to fertilisers and smallholder development

7 Jul 2016

Probiotics for plants

Probiotics for plants

13 May 2016

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Zimbabweans make thriving farm on abandoned land

Tariro Washinyira 6 May 2016

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Fertilizer sales expected to pick up

3 May 2016

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Drought-hit SA importing maize to cover shortfall

Madeleine van Niekerk 3 May 2016

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Status of Oriental fruit fly in SA

26 Apr 2016

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Top African producer bans GM cotton

26 Apr 2016

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Monsanto commits to agriculture in Africa

21 Apr 2016

Food security efforts need to look beyond urban agriculture. Jane Battersby

Why urban agriculture isn't a panacea for Africa's food crisis

Gareth Haysom and Jane Battersby 18 Apr 2016

Digitizing agriculture and growing knowledge

Digitizing agriculture and growing knowledge

Cari Van Wyk 18 Apr 2016

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Decline of bees, other pollinators, threatens crop output

29 Feb 2016

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UFS researcher: Cows hold solution to SA's power crisis

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Worms do the dirty work for composting entrepreneur

Eugene Yiga 6 Jan 2016

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Yara expands investment in Africa

7 Dec 2015

Radebe: SA is world's 9th largest GM crop producer

Radebe: SA is world's 9th largest GM crop producer

6 Nov 2015

No menace in mealies

No menace in mealies

8 Oct 2015

15 EU nations opt to stay GMO-free

15 EU nations opt to stay GMO-free

2 Oct 2015

MiteNot might just help save the bees

MiteNot might just help save the bees

Mark Warren 1 Sep 2015

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Organisations condemn go-ahead given by South African GMO authorities for GM maize seed

19 Jun 2015

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Genetically modified cotton in Africa will harm, not help, smallholder farmers

12 Jun 2015

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Africa joins the world in global protest

29 May 2015

Dept to probe classification of herbicide as possibly carcinogenic

Dept to probe classification of herbicide as possibly carcinogenic

25 May 2015

Monsanto would sell Syngenta's seed business in merger

Monsanto would sell Syngenta's seed business in merger

22 May 2015

Marchers plant seeds of protest

Marchers plant seeds of protest

22 May 2015

Google backs farm-focused startup as AgTech blooms

Google backs farm-focused startup as AgTech blooms

20 May 2015

EU agrees opt-out deal for GMO imports

EU agrees opt-out deal for GMO imports

23 Apr 2015

Why conservation agriculture must be promoted in SA

Why conservation agriculture must be promoted in SA

13 Apr 2015

PnP promotes sustainable transformation with community food garden

PnP promotes sustainable transformation with community food garden

5 Mar 2015

The time is ripe to expand into the continent and abroad says Smillie

The time is ripe to expand into the continent and abroad says Smillie

21 Jan 2015

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