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Partnership on GIs to boost rural development, exports of traditional food products and wine
"GIs add value to products and promote the origin and heritage of the products. South Africa abounds with unique and high quality agricultural and traditional products that evoke the rich heritage of our country's diverse regions."read
Villa and Monash SA join hands for instructional reform
Villa and Monash SA join hands for instructional reform

Lynette Louw

A partnership between agricultural company, Villa, and academic institution, Monash South Africa promises to lend a new face to agricultural higher education in South Africa...read
Study: Better soil could trap as much planet-warming carbon as transport produces
Study: Better soil could trap as much planet-warming carbon as transport produces

Thin Lei Win

Better soil management could boost carbon stored in the top layer of the soil by up to 1.85 gigatonnes each year, about the same as the carbon emissions of transport globally...read
Opportunities in the East-African poultry sector
Opportunities in the East-African poultry sector
With a global increase in demand for poultry and eggs in countries with growing populations and an increase in wealth, it follows that there is an opportunity for production growth. East-Africa has such opportunities...read
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Drones are taking to the skies above Africa to map land ownership

Robert Wayumba

Mapping land boundaries is an important way to boost a country's economic growth and development. It contributes towards better security of land ownership, allows landowners to get bank loans and... read
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What needs to be done to give Africa's smallholder farmers access to machinery

Thomas Daum, Regina Birner

Mechanisation of agriculture has become a priority across many African countries as the continent gears up to exploit its well-recognised potential to become the world's food basket... read
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Cultivar and technology agency launched

Lise Roberts

The SACTA was officially launched with the purpose of addressing the lack of new technology for self- or open-pollinated grain and oilseed crops in South Africa... read
Commercial Fishing
New fish-smoking tech first introduced in Africa launched in Asia
New fish-smoking tech first introduced in Africa launched in Asia
Health hazards, such as smoking inhalation are high and output of intensive labour in the traditional method of fish-smoking is often low but the introduction of new smoking ovens pioneered by FAO is set to change this... read
Sustainability
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Tobacco hurts more than just your lungs - it damages the communities that grow it

Eleanor Jew

Tobacco impacts the health and well-being of the people who grow it and the environment where it is grown, often with devastating consequences. So why do farmers grow tobacco? read
Viticulture & Oenology
Extravagant philanthropy: Meet the man behind the Cape Wine Auction
Extravagant philanthropy: Meet the man behind the Cape Wine Auction
Innovative wine producer and MD of the Warwick and Vilafonté Wine Estates, Mike Ratcliffe is a founder of the annual Cape Wine Auction which raises millions of rands for charity. Ratcliffe answers some questions... read
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