Small businesses in food systems hold the key to affordable and healthy foods, report
An estimated 60 per cent of rural and urban Kenyan households access their daily meals from micro/small enterprises (MSEs) at local markets. But despite...
Op-ed : South Africa’s success with GMO white maize – lessons for the continent
African countries in the south of the Sahara have a lot to learn from South Africa’s successes in Genetically Modified (GM) plant agriculture. The...
The Israeli Farmers’ Story May Save Hundreds of Millions From Poverty and Hunger
Dr. Nimrod Israely - Founder and CEO - Dream Valley
A week ago, at a conference focused on Technology in agriculture, I talked with Indian...
Opinion | A Critical Moment for Africa’s Drylands: Building Resilient Food Systems
By:George Richards, Director of Community Jameel, and Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute
A quiet, deadly crisis is unfolding in Africa’s...
Headline inflation cools but food remains sticky on the upside, up 9% y-y in...
A big monthly decrease in the fuel price index by 5.5% in November underpinned the recent pullback in headline inflation. The annual fuel rate...
Time to Focus on the Predictability of Agriculture
In the face of unpredictable changes in weather conditions and rainfall patterns, it is evident that the age-old process of agriculture is no longer...
Africa has just six years to realise the water, sanitation and hygiene SDG
The race is on to realise the most fundamental of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – ensuring that everyone has access to water, sanitation...
Is India Changing Its Attitude Toward Agriculture and Economic Development?
By: Dr. Nimrod Israely
"There is no economic prosperity without foreign companies and investors. Willingly and gladly embrace them.”
In 1991 I visited India for the...
Divorcing human rights from land rights would be a betrayal of the liberation struggle
Every year, on 21 March 1960, South Africa remembers the 69 people killed, and hundreds more injured, in Sharpeville when police opened fire on...
Farms of the Future a Blueprint for South African Regenerative Agriculture
McCain’s Farm of the Future Africa will focus on utilising state-of-the-art sustainable agriculture practices to help the business successfully combat the effects of...