Daily Archives: 18 May 2020

SPACE 2020 will not go forward

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting crisis, SPACE 2020, which was scheduled for ...

Brazil creates a platform for e-commerce of agricultural and livestock products

The aim of the platform is to facilitate the marketing of products from the field, ...

Australians connect new bacteria to lung disease in pigs

Australian researchers have discovered that a previously recognised bacterium is responsible for the signs of ...

How code is improving food security

Bizcommunity, 7 May 2020 The evolution of civilisation runs hand-in-glove with the earliest forays by ...

The geography of Covid-19 and a vulnerable global food system

William G. Moseley, World Politics Review, 12 May 2020 Late last month, as the coronavirus ...

Coronavirus: Why the risk of a meat shortage is different in SA

Carin Smith, Fin24, May 17 2020 As the US grapples with a meat-supply crunch that ...

Breaking new ground in global agriculture post-Covid

By Wandile Sihlobo, Economics, 12 May 2020 As the coronavirus continues to spread around the ...

African swine fever and swine flu are not the same

There is still confusion about the names, African swine fever (ASF) (Afrika varkpes in Afrikaans), ...

Here is SAPPO’s latest ASF update

SAPPO’s Business Intelligence division update its ASF report. The report covers the period 22 April ...

Latest Monthly Food Security Bulletin

Issued: 8 May 2020 Highlights of the Directorate: Statistics and Economic Analysis’ latest Food Security ...

Department serious to contain ASF

Johann Kotzé, CEO of SAPPO was part of a delegation that again met with minister ...