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Financial skills key to unlocking SA farmers' long-term prosperity

Financial skills key to unlocking SA farmers' long-term prosperity

Source: © Global African Network The DFFE and DPWI have entered into a MOA on the preferential access for small-scale fisheries co-operatives to public works facilities

DFFE and DPWI preferential access for small scale fisheries MOA

Heritage Capital drives growth in SA's specialty cheese sector

Heritage Capital drives growth in SA's specialty cheese sector

Source: © Global African Network The DFFE and DPWI have entered into a MOA on the preferential access for small-scale fisheries co-operatives to public works facilities

DFFE and DPWI preferential access for small scale fisheries MOA

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Heritage Capital drives growth in SA's specialty cheese sector

Heritage Capital drives growth in SA's specialty cheese sector

15 May 2024

New technology addresses alternate bearing in citrus

New technology addresses alternate bearing in citrus

2 Sep 2020

Genomic test for dairy cows launched in SA

Genomic test for dairy cows launched in SA

2 Sep 2020

BizFix: Kiss it Better Special

BizFix: Kiss it Better Special

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Covid-19 has hit SMEs in SA's food sector hard. What can be done to help them

Covid-19 has hit SMEs in SA's food sector hard. What can be done to help them

Andrew Bowman and Reena das Nair 1 Sep 2020

Big harvests for 2020, from summer to winter

Paul Makube 31 Aug 2020

CWG Vinotheque Auction to help save wine industry jobs

CWG Vinotheque Auction to help save wine industry jobs

31 Aug 2020

Young women encouraged to take up careers in forestry

Young women encouraged to take up careers in forestry

31 Aug 2020

Gorilla gets off to a 'humming' start with Huletts Sugar

Gorilla gets off to a 'humming' start with Huletts Sugar

Jordan Wallace, Gorilla 31 Aug 2020

Africa has a growing food security problem: why it can't be fixed without proper data

Africa has a growing food security problem: why it can't be fixed without proper data

28 Aug 2020

The imperative to create shared value for Africa through investment in agriculture

The imperative to create shared value for Africa through investment in agriculture

Axel Smeulders 27 Aug 2020

How optimal water use can support food security, reduce waste in Africa

How optimal water use can support food security, reduce waste in Africa

27 Aug 2020

SA liquor industry partners with Community Policing Forums

SA liquor industry partners with Community Policing Forums

27 Aug 2020

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Food is one aspect, but safe food is crucial

26 Aug 2020

Geographical indications: Are they on the map in South Africa?

Geographical indications: Are they on the map in South Africa?

Nicole Haworth 26 Aug 2020

Using agriculture to help boost job creation, investment in Mozambique

25 Aug 2020

DPWI partners with AgriSETA to train 400 artisans

DPWI partners with AgriSETA to train 400 artisans

25 Aug 2020

A palm oil plantation in Malaysia. (Shutterstock)

How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses

24 Aug 2020

Update on the FMD disease outbreak in Limpopo

Update on the FMD disease outbreak in Limpopo

24 Aug 2020

Inclusive, multi-pronged approach needed for successful land reform programme

Inclusive, multi-pronged approach needed for successful land reform programme

24 Aug 2020

Tongaat Hulett celebrates women in sugar cane farming

Tongaat Hulett celebrates women in sugar cane farming

21 Aug 2020

Alcohol industry to invest R150m in alcohol harm-reduction programmes

Alcohol industry to invest R150m in alcohol harm-reduction programmes

21 Aug 2020

Emerging poultry farmers to get hands-on experience with advanced KZNPI chicken house

Emerging poultry farmers to get hands-on experience with advanced KZNPI chicken house

20 Aug 2020

Cape Winemakers Guild announces wines for this year's Nedbank CWG Auction

Cape Winemakers Guild announces wines for this year's Nedbank CWG Auction

20 Aug 2020

Food prices in Nigeria have shot through the roof. But is the pandemic to blame?

Food prices in Nigeria have shot through the roof. But is the pandemic to blame?

Adegboye, Folasade Bosede 19 Aug 2020

Collaborating on purpose

Collaborating on purpose

Bizcommunity.com 19 Aug 2020

ADA helps launch 100% Black female-owned Tsar Beef Farm in KZN

ADA helps launch 100% Black female-owned Tsar Beef Farm in KZN

18 Aug 2020

Let's #DoBizZA this September

Let's #DoBizZA this September

Bizcommunity.com 18 Aug 2020

Tiger Brands to sell meat business units

Tiger Brands to sell meat business units

17 Aug 2020

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha, director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University

Digital small-scale models could help SA's pandemic-stricken farmers

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha 17 Aug 2020

Industry welcomes lifting of alcohol ban, will avail resources to fight Covid-19

Industry welcomes lifting of alcohol ban, will avail resources to fight Covid-19

17 Aug 2020

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Source: © Ollivier Girad/CIFOR-ICRAF Fifty-eight ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa have been identified as able to provide healthy diets in a changing climate

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BizFix: Kiss it Better Special

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Covid-19 has hit SMEs in SA's food sector hard. What can be done to help them

Andrew Bowman and Reena das Nair 1 Sep 2020

Big harvests for 2020, from summer to winter

Paul Makube 31 Aug 2020

CWG Vinotheque Auction to help save wine industry jobs

CWG Vinotheque Auction to help save wine industry jobs

31 Aug 2020

Young women encouraged to take up careers in forestry

Young women encouraged to take up careers in forestry

31 Aug 2020

Gorilla gets off to a 'humming' start with Huletts Sugar

Gorilla gets off to a 'humming' start with Huletts Sugar

Jordan Wallace, Gorilla 31 Aug 2020

Africa has a growing food security problem: why it can't be fixed without proper data

Africa has a growing food security problem: why it can't be fixed without proper data

28 Aug 2020

The imperative to create shared value for Africa through investment in agriculture

The imperative to create shared value for Africa through investment in agriculture

Axel Smeulders 27 Aug 2020

How optimal water use can support food security, reduce waste in Africa

How optimal water use can support food security, reduce waste in Africa

27 Aug 2020

SA liquor industry partners with Community Policing Forums

SA liquor industry partners with Community Policing Forums

27 Aug 2020

AhmadArdity via

Food is one aspect, but safe food is crucial

26 Aug 2020

Geographical indications: Are they on the map in South Africa?

Geographical indications: Are they on the map in South Africa?

Nicole Haworth 26 Aug 2020

Using agriculture to help boost job creation, investment in Mozambique

25 Aug 2020

DPWI partners with AgriSETA to train 400 artisans

DPWI partners with AgriSETA to train 400 artisans

25 Aug 2020

A palm oil plantation in Malaysia. (Shutterstock)

How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses

24 Aug 2020

Update on the FMD disease outbreak in Limpopo

Update on the FMD disease outbreak in Limpopo

24 Aug 2020

Inclusive, multi-pronged approach needed for successful land reform programme

Inclusive, multi-pronged approach needed for successful land reform programme

24 Aug 2020

Tongaat Hulett celebrates women in sugar cane farming

Tongaat Hulett celebrates women in sugar cane farming

21 Aug 2020

Alcohol industry to invest R150m in alcohol harm-reduction programmes

Alcohol industry to invest R150m in alcohol harm-reduction programmes

21 Aug 2020

Emerging poultry farmers to get hands-on experience with advanced KZNPI chicken house

Emerging poultry farmers to get hands-on experience with advanced KZNPI chicken house

20 Aug 2020

Cape Winemakers Guild announces wines for this year's Nedbank CWG Auction

Cape Winemakers Guild announces wines for this year's Nedbank CWG Auction

20 Aug 2020

Food prices in Nigeria have shot through the roof. But is the pandemic to blame?

Food prices in Nigeria have shot through the roof. But is the pandemic to blame?

Adegboye, Folasade Bosede 19 Aug 2020

Collaborating on purpose

Collaborating on purpose

Bizcommunity.com 19 Aug 2020

ADA helps launch 100% Black female-owned Tsar Beef Farm in KZN

ADA helps launch 100% Black female-owned Tsar Beef Farm in KZN

18 Aug 2020

Let's #DoBizZA this September

Let's #DoBizZA this September

Bizcommunity.com 18 Aug 2020

Tiger Brands to sell meat business units

Tiger Brands to sell meat business units

17 Aug 2020

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha, director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University

Digital small-scale models could help SA's pandemic-stricken farmers

Professor Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha 17 Aug 2020

Industry welcomes lifting of alcohol ban, will avail resources to fight Covid-19

Industry welcomes lifting of alcohol ban, will avail resources to fight Covid-19

17 Aug 2020

South Africa needs better food price controls to shield poor people from Covid-19 fallout

South Africa needs better food price controls to shield poor people from Covid-19 fallout

Ihsaan Bassier, Refiloe Joala and Thando Vilakazi 14 Aug 2020

Extended Covid-19 relief for small-scale farmers

Extended Covid-19 relief for small-scale farmers

14 Aug 2020

Nederberg spotlights its female winemakers, viticulturist this Women's Month

Nederberg spotlights its female winemakers, viticulturist this Women's Month

13 Aug 2020

Vegetable farmers in urban Ghana don't worry much about food safety - but they should

Vegetable farmers in urban Ghana don't worry much about food safety - but they should

Kabila Abass 12 Aug 2020

Residents of Lamu, Kenya, accuse the government of ignoring their concerns and going ahead with the construction of a huge port. TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images

Review of nine African 'blue economy' projects shows what works and what doesn't

Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood 12 Aug 2020

The cotton sector: A myriad of challenges, a world of opportunities

Cobus de Bruyn 11 Aug 2020

Alcohol industry says ban poses risk to trade partnership

Alcohol industry says ban poses risk to trade partnership

11 Aug 2020

Exxaro's EARN Agripreneurs graduate from 12-month programme

Exxaro's EARN Agripreneurs graduate from 12-month programme

7 Aug 2020

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FLM campaign dents SA's deepening hunger crisis

Lauren Hartzenberg 7 Aug 2020

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SA might be on track for another good crops season due to higher rainfall

Wandile Sihlobo 7 Aug 2020

Do you know where your coffee comes from? The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of knowing about our supply chains. Here, a woman carries harvested coffee beans in a coffee plantation in Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique, in August 2019. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

The coronavirus pandemic requires us to understand food's murky supply chains

Cory Searcy and Pavel Castka 6 Aug 2020

Minister Didiza appoints OBP interim board

Minister Didiza appoints OBP interim board

6 Aug 2020

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