Category Archives: Let’s Talk Indepth

New way to detect presence of live ASFv

Source: Pig Progress, 1 August 2020, photo credit: Business Day US scientists have identified a ...

03
Aug
Economic recession: These guidelines may help 


Prof Johan Willemse, agricultural economist, photo credit: erhui1979 Getty Images/Fortune It is evident that the ...

03
Aug
Food security: How will we feed 9 billion mouths by 2037?

Dr Peter Oberem, Bizcommunity, 27 July 2020, photo credit: African Development Bank We need to ...

03
Aug
This is how rural areas can be developed through agriculture

Source: Wandile Sihlobo and Johann Kirsten, Business Day, 19 July 2020, photo credit: Underberg Farmers ...

28
Jul
How Earth’s plastic pollution problem could look by 2040

Source: The Conversation, 24 July 24 2020, photo credit: Magda Ehlers/Green Building Africa During a ...

28
Jul
There’s no need to reinvent the wheel to boost growth in agriculture

Source: Bizcommunity/Agribusiness, 19 Jun 2020, photo credit: Education Central The South African agriculture sector has ...

28
Jul
What lessons are we learning from the coronavirus pandemic?

Source: Sifiso Ntombela, Fin24, 15 July, photo credit: News24/Citypress More than 100 days since the ...

28
Jul
ASF is here to stay (but we can manage the disease)

Source: Dr Leana Janse van Rensburg, State Veterinarian Disease Control Unit, Directorate of Animal Health, ...

20
Jul
To reduce world hunger, governments need to think beyond making food cheap

Source: The Conversations, July 17, 2020, photo credit: Direct Selling News According to a new ...

20
Jul
Pandemic disruptions an opportunity for Africa to re-imagine cities

Source: Creamer Media’s Engineering News, photo credit: Shutterstock/Brookings The need for social distancing and better ...

20
Jul
Building more sustainable businesses in a post-Covid world

Source: Robin Fisher, Biscommunity, 10 Jul 2020, photo credit: Acquisition International Over recent months the ...

20
Jul
Africa and South Africa must embrace 4IR to compete in the global economic race

Source: Tshilidzi Marwala, Daily Maverick, 6 July 2020, photo credit: Malwarebytes Labs Research on the ...

13
Jul