As the world's population has now reached seven billion, the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Kanayo F Nwanze, has raised the critical question of who will feed the planet's rapidly expanding population.
Read more >>During an Absa business breakfast on food security in Rosebank, Johannesburg on Wednesday, 26 October 2011, it emerged that, while South Africa has enough food to feed its population, the challenge is to make it affordable.
The Sowetan reports that Ernst Janovsky, head of Absa agribusiness, said that despite the Eurozone and US economic weakness, global food demand has remained strong.
Read more >>In a statement published in allAfrica.com, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) corrected a media statement issued on 16 September 2011, in which exporters were invited to apply for a permit to export the following agricultural products to the European market: cheese, cut flowers, frozen strawberries, canned fruit (pears, apricots and peaches), frozen orange juice, pineapple juice, apple juice, white and red wine.
Read more >>Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change, but it also produces about 14% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, says the
Mail & Guardian's Yolandi Groenewald. The consensus is that climate change will have a significant impact on agriculture in developing countries.
Read more >>Ashkan Consulting has strategically aligned with Bayer Animal Health South Africa to commercialise the Avi Boost range in sub-Saharan Africa. Avi Boost is an innovative nutriceutical range of products that uses liquid nucleotide technology. The products within the range have been proven to significantly improve performance in poultry production.
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The Land Bank has taken over the debtors' book of GroCapital Financial Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AFGRI in a deal that is worth R1,4-billion, according to a report published by Business Live.
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