Author Archives: SAPPO

#AfricaCom: Future of digital financial services in Africa

According to the World Economic Forum, there are 700m people using digital financial services globally, ...

04
Dec
Contextualising the ASF outbreaks

The Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) in collaboration with SAPPO compiled a report ...

04
Dec
Johann Kotzé talks about FMD

SAPPO Johann Kotzé, places foot and mouth disease in the spotlight. He discusses, among others, ...

04
Dec
Agri SA ready to engage on water master plan

On 28 November 2019 the Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation, Lindiwe Sisulu, launched ...

04
Dec
Investing in the future

The Recreation Africa Group (Misty Hills Country Hotel Conference Centre & Spa and Kedar Heritage ...

04
Dec
Meat prices up as international demand reaches new highs

The higher demand for meat was largely due to the African swine fever outbreak in ...

04
Dec
China is breeding giant pigs that are as heavy as an African buffalo

In a farm deep in the southern region of China lives a very big pig ...

04
Dec
Beyond Meat is developing plant-based bacon and steak alternatives

The company behind the vegan burger that’s taking the world by storm thanks to its realistic beef ...

04
Dec
PORCUS (Nov-Dec 2019)

01
Dec
‘Not enough pork in the world’ to deal with China’s demand for meat

With hundreds of millions of pigs dead from swine fever, exporters are scrambling to fill ...

26
Nov
Financial bench marking: Update from Canada

Canada’s pork producers are using bench marking information to make better decisions – compared with ...

26
Nov
Union and Nonprofit sue USDA over sped-up pork production rules

They fear increased worker injuries as a result of the new rules. When the USDA ...

26
Nov