Category Archives: Let’s Talk Indepth

How to stimulate regional economic development in Africa

Prof LJ Grobler, Director CFAM Technologies, Professor – Faculty of Engineering, North-West University, South Africa ...

Meat industry needs to ‘restore pride’

The meat industry has become a “pharmakon” and needs to communicate its benefits to the ...

Tackling Agro-terrorism

The goal of “traditional” bioterrorism is to attack human health by using human and zoonotic ...

41 million people in Southern Africa to face food insecurity

About 41,2 million people in 13 Southern African countries will suffer food insecurity between now ...

How has the threat of African swine fever changed biosecurity?

Even though African swine fever (ASF) is not now, nor ever has been in the ...

Better breeding for better disease management

Preliminary results suggest that in swine there is an association between immune response phenotype and ...

South Africa’s carbon tax matters

Carbon tax is likely to be an effective way of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, which ...

Flies can play a role in transmitting ASF into farms

Pigs can in theory get infected with African Swine Fever virus by eating infected flies. ...

Investing in Africa: a continent brimming with opportunities

Dr Rutendo Hwindingwi, also known as the ‘African Realist’, spoke to Glenneis Kriel of Farmer’s Weekly about ...

Biofuels – a quick win that ticks all the right boxes

The Department of Minerals and Energy published a National Industrial Strategy on biofuel production in ...

Lawsonia can impact other gut pathogens

A growing body of evidence is finding gut health a factor that must be prioritised ...

National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy starts to take shape

On the 5th of June 2019, comments were due to be submitted to the department ...