Growing small-scale farming and enterprise potential !
By: Wanga Pholi, Assistant Programme Manager for Agriculture at Seriti Institute
Household gardens have always played a positive role in addressing food insecurity and malnutrition...
Agricultural equipment: radial and bias tires compared
How can you choose the right tire for your agricultural equipment? Is it better to opt for radial or bias solutions?
It's difficult to provide...
Higher cost outlook for agriculture as the SARB lifts interest rates for the second...
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB Agri-Business
The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) continued its monetary policy normalisation with a further hike...
Impacts of Ukraine conflict on food security already being felt in the Near East...
As the war continues to rage in Ukraine, impacts of rising food prices and shortages of staple crops are already being felt in 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...
Cry “Havoc!”, and let slip the dogs of war
Opinion article by Prof Frikkie Maré, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of the Free State
In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar, Mark Antony utters the...
Ukraine crisis highlights importance of food security
Regardless of your business, South Africa sits at the very end of very long global supply lines. Even before Covid-19 and the July 2021...
An impressive rebound in agriculture GDP in the fourth quarter of 2021
Statistic South Africa’s latest update on the country’s agriculture real GDP for 4Q21 shows an impressive rebound of 12.2% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) seasonally adjusted after...
How this Savings Cooperative in rural Uganda will serve women and their families
By M. Scott Frank and Ronald Kibirige
Growing up, 38-year-old Namata Goretti dreamed of becoming a doctor. But due to her family situation, she -...
Angola Beyond Oil and Gas and the road to Economic Diversification
By Verner Ayukegba, Senior Vice-President of the African Energy Chamber.
Over the course of 2022-2023 Angola aims to consolidate its post COVID-19 economic recovery agenda...