Category Archives: Let’s Talk Indepth

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
The failed state debate: Are we there?

Source: Prof Johan Willemse, SAPPO News, September 2020 A report by an European consultancy (Eunomix) ...

06
Oct
SA agreement with South East Asian bloc opens up a host of opportunities

Source: Hilton Fisher, Daily Maverick, 30 September 2020 South Africa is in the process of ...

06
Oct
The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years – and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet

Source: Julie Brigham-Grette, Steve Petsch, The Conversation, 30 September 2020 Every year, sea ice cover ...

06
Oct
OECD-FAO global agricultural outlook 2020 – 2029

Source: SAPPO World of Pork, photo credit: Hallmark Channel The Agricultural Outlook 2020-2029 is a ...

28
Sep