Your maize can yield more — when protection goes beyond disease control
For maize producers, the value of a fungicide programme is often measured in terms of disease control. But what happens in the crop after...
From Farm Records to Credit: Making African Agriculture Bankable
BY : Christopher Burke Senior Advisor, WMC AfricaA farmer may have delivered cocoa, maize, coffee or milk to the same buyer for years. A...
Time to rethink fertiliser subsidies as climate pressures reshape African agriculture
Research dissemination workshop in Nachingwea, Tanzania for the Civic Voices for Just Rural Transition project. Photo courtesy of Clim-Eat.For decades, fertiliser subsidies intended to...
Corteva Seed Quality: The Gateway to Competitive Markets
For South African grain and oilseed farmers, producing a high-yielding crop is only part of the equation when competing on the local and international...
Container-Grown, Retail-Ready: How Arable Grow Cracked Urban Farming
As South Africa faces mounting pressure from climate change, water scarcity and rapid urbanisation, the future of farming may not lie in fields. It...
Following the Water: Tracing Climate Change from African Rivers to the Ocean
A conversation with 2026 Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant finalist Dr. Gabriel Akoko Juma
Water does not recognise the boundaries we have drawn on maps.Rain...
The Law’s Kitchen: Tomatoes, Jaffa Cakes and chicken tariffs
Written by Renier KriekThe law is often less interested in what things are than in what taxes, tariffs and statutes require them to be...
The untapped value of Rooibos to SA’s economy
For millions of South Africans, Rooibos is simply part of the daily ritual – a steaming cup in the morning, a refreshing iced drink...
The Netafim 5G Dosing Portfolio Wins Global Precision Fertigation Award
On the back of the recent launch of NetaJet™ 5G, an adaptive precision fertigation solution powered by GrowSphere™ technology, in the Southern and East...
Before We Cleared the Land, We Watched It
What a year of repeated observation in Prado, Bahia taught our family about sandy-soil recovery, low-cost digital field records and the value of sharing...