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World Soil Day: Reviving South Africa’s soils for a sustainable future

World Soil Day: Reviving South Africa’s soils for a sustainable future

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2025 MTN PachiPanda Challenge: Meet SA's eco-leaders

Soil and water: An inseparable partnership in a changing agricultural landscape

Soil and water: An inseparable partnership in a changing agricultural landscapeProf Driekie Fourie

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2025 MTN PachiPanda Challenge: Meet SA's eco-leaders

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Soil and water: An inseparable partnership in a changing agricultural landscape

Soil and water: An inseparable partnership in a changing agricultural landscape

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Food For Mzansi launches ‘Stand up, be counted’ for SA farmers

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What will it take to make Africa food secure? G20 group points to trade, resilient supply chains and sustainable farming

What will it take to make Africa food secure? G20 group points to trade, resilient supply chains and sustainable farming

Wandile Sihlobo 11 Nov 2025

Manufacturing a healthy future for water

Manufacturing a healthy future for water

Safripol 10 Nov 2025

Where profit meets planet: The business of climate-resilient food production

Where profit meets planet: The business of climate-resilient food production

Daneel Rossouw 10 Nov 2025

Can technology make Africa a global agricultural powerhouse?

Can technology make Africa a global agricultural powerhouse?

6 Nov 2025

One of Thanda’s Food Security Economic Development programme’s farmers harvesting food to sell in her community. Image supplied.

Woolies' R857m effort towards a hunger-free South Africa

28 Oct 2025

SA poultry industry faces conflict: protection vs competition

SA poultry industry faces conflict: protection vs competition

23 Oct 2025

The Zayed Sustainability Prize’s jury selected the 33 finalists from 7,761 entries received across six categories. Image supplied.

Inmed South Africa is a finalist for the 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize

6 Oct 2025

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South Africa pushes for sustainable ocean economy at UN

23 Sep 2025

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UFS’s new initiative plans to plant 400,000 trees across South Africa

23 Sep 2025

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UFS to introduce new engineering degrees in agriculture and ecology

10 Sep 2025

Cattle graze in Brakpan while a shepherd looks after them. Archive photo: Kimberly Mutandiro / GroundUp

ConCourt confirms stopping people from letting their cattle graze amounts to eviction

Tania Broughton 4 Aug 2025

From farm to table: How ButtaNutt is reshaping South Africa’s food landscape

From farm to table: How ButtaNutt is reshaping South Africa’s food landscape

Robin Fredericks 29 Jul 2025

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New irrigation plots expand climate-smart farming in Chisumbanje

23 Jul 2025

Nampo Cape 2025 to showcase smart tech for sustainable agriculture

Nampo Cape 2025 to showcase smart tech for sustainable agriculture

18 Jul 2025

RegenZ launches Farmfluencer Challenge

RegenZ launches Farmfluencer Challenge

2 Jul 2025

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Why South African animal welfare laws need an urgent overhaul

Charan Saunders 12 Jun 2025

Release of a tagged speckled snapper in the iSimangaliso MPA (Photo credit: Bruce Mann).

3 research studies that show the positive impact of MPAs

10 Jun 2025

Sowing the seeds of food security

Sowing the seeds of food security

Libstar 9 Jun 2025

Scientists at the University of Pretoria have found that fresh vegetables are being contaminated by disease-causing bacteria through irrigation from polluted rivers and boreholes. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

South Africa’s polluted rivers pose food contamination risk

Steve Kretzmann 26 May 2025

Buzzing for change

Buzzing for change

Libstar Group 20 May 2025

Source: US Embassy in Maseru. Millennium Challenge Corporation deputy chief executive Chidi Blyden at the launch of the project in Maseru.

US shuts down massive Lesotho development project

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 May 2025

Rooibos farmers unite agriculture, conservation for biodiversity

Rooibos farmers unite agriculture, conservation for biodiversity

18 Feb 2025

Urban food gardens produce more than vegetables, they create bonds for young Capetonians – study

Urban food gardens produce more than vegetables, they create bonds for young Capetonians – study

Tinashe P. Kanosvamhira 3 Feb 2025

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Industrial scale farming is flawed: What ecologically-friendly farming practices could look like in Africa

Rachel Wynberg 24 Jan 2025

Dr Manessah Alagbaoso, the Head: Business Ecosystems and Sustainability for the Standard Bank Group Business and Commercial Banking Unit

#BizTrends2025: Mainstreaming sustainability

Dr Manessah Alagbaoso 21 Jan 2025

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Fair pricing essential for smallholder farmers to tackle global food challenges

20 Jan 2025

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