Oped : Navigating Gender Equality in Agriculture AI
Agriculture remains the bedrock of global economy, yet it’s also one of the sectors most vulnerable to climate change. As droughts become more frequent...
A call for CSI initiatives to help redress the land reform debacle
Ever since the land reform programme was initiated in 1994, the hopes of communities forcibly removed from their ancestral land have been dampened by...
Beyond Carbon: How Holistic Tree Planting Fuels Sustainable Development and Community Empowerment
By Yossef Ben-Meir and Kaitlyn Waring Marrakech
Recent assertions have suggested that tree planting is not as effective a climate solution as once thought. Bill Gates argued...
South African farmers need to adopt new approaches and technologies to combat the country’s...
South African agribusiness is at a crossroads. After decades of rising farm production, South Africa is still a hungry nation, with constant pressure on...
Opinion piece: When farms burn
Theo de Jager
In a blink of an eye disasters can destroy family farms that have been established for generations. Hail storms, drought, floods, intense...
Maize harvest falls below 13m tons for the first time in 5 years.
By Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist, FNB Commercial
Monitoring the 2023/24 harvest forecasts has been interesting following an El Nino-induced heat that decimated crops earlier...
Potential impact of land reform in the tourism sector – How this sector can...
By Peter Setou: Chief Executive Officer of Vumelana Advisory Fund
While the land reform programme in South Africa has not been all smooth sailing, it...
Food inflation ended its 8-month deceleration, ticking 4.1% higher y-y in August 2024.
The latest update on South Africa’s consumer price inflation showed a further slowdown to 4.4% y/y in August 2024, which is a 40-month low...
Democratising business success: Art of Scale in association with FNB
Scaling is a critical period that either ends in the company growing rapidly and sustainably or getting stuck in the chaos and ending up...
Saai condemns the ongoing issue of livestock theft and slaughter, calls for urgent action
The Southern African Agri Initiative (Saai) has been informed by SA Red Meat (SARMC) of yet another brutal livestock slaughter in the Free State...