Category Archives: Let’s Talk Indepth

Taking emerging commercial farmers seriously

Source: Robin Fredericks, Bizcommunity, 16 Oct 2020, photo credit: Fombina Times This year’s Africa Brand ...

26
Oct
Rocketing: Electricity prices up 177% in a decade – water costs up 213%

Source: Ferial Haffajee, Dauly Maverick, 21 October 2020, photo credit: Efogator.com The sky-high cost of ...

26
Oct
What is on the consumer’s mind?

Source: SAPPO Weekly Update, 23 October 2020, photo credit: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com/mg Magazine Various topics were placed ...

26
Oct
Big diesel price drop brings input cost relief for farmers

Lloyd Phillips, Farmer’s Weekly, 7 October 2020 As things stand, South Africa’s summer crop farmers ...

19
Oct
Tech disruption will only accelerate in decades beyond Covid-19

22 September 2020. Photo credit: Google Sites The global COVID -19 pandemic and the subsequent ...

19
Oct
Green and integrated approaches could address food security challenges

Agriculture and food production does not happen in isolation, and to maximise food production and ...

19
Oct
The year that the energy transition became inevitable — and cheap

Dirk De Vos, Business Maverick, 18 October 2020 Achieving climate crisis objectives to a net-zero ...

19
Oct
‘Uninhabitable hell’: Climate change and disease threaten millions, UN warns

Source: Reuters/Daily Maverick 12 October 2020 A jump in climate-related disasters this century, along with ...

14
Oct
Adapting to the new normal of teaching and training during COVID 19 outbreak

Photograph: Written by Nydia Brits, Drikus Degenaar, Mark Ortmann, Koketso Masa Mokhubedu, Jaco Theron and ...

14
Oct
Government plan to release land for farmers a step in the right direction

Wandile Sihlobo, Fin24, 5 October 2020 The growth of South Africa’s agricultural fortunes and job ...

14
Oct
Global food prices up 21% in September

Source: Bizcommunity, 8 October 2020 According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization ...

14
Oct
Preventing heat stress in pigs

Source: Mashilo Phosa, Chemuniqué, 5 October 2020, photo credit: AFMA Matrix October 2020 Heat stress ...

06
Oct