OPINION: The BPO Advantage — Turning Packhouse Seasonality Into Year-Round Efficiency
By George Bofilatos, Solutions Specialist at Programmed Process Outsourcing (PPO)Ask any manager in an agricultural packhouse about peak season, and the response is often...
Women’s participation in agriculture must move beyond subsistence farming
By Zanele Mabelane, Product Portfolio Head of Agriculture at FNB CommercialAccording to Stats SA, there are approximately 40,000 commercial farming units in South Africa,...
Beyond disease control: getting more bang for your buck
By Andries Duvenhage: Campaign Lead: Cereals, Deciduous Fruit & VegCrop protection should no longer be seen as an unavoidable expense to control pests and...
Waste Heat to Wealth: Atlas Copco Cuts Costs and Carbon for Food Processing
Compressed air drives operations across virtually every sector at scale, securing its status as the ‘fourth utility’. Yet this vital utility is also one...
Climate Resilience Begins on the Factory Floor in South Africa
A new University of Pretoria study has warned that climate pressure on South Africa’s food system extends beyond the farm gate. Agri-processing businesses are...
Women Who Keep the Wild Alive
Conversations with women leading conservation in the Western Cape - protecting our natural heritage and refusing to give up on nature.Women's Month is...
WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS
Why post-fire recovery is about more than clean-up Wildfires don’t begin with dramatic flames racing across the landscape. They start quietly, with a...
As El Niño Resurfaces, Africa Needs Better Tools to Protect Food Systems
By Zoë Karl-Waithaka, Managing Director and Partner, BCG KenyaAs warnings about a strengthening El Niño mount, governments, agribusinesses and farmers across Africa are once...
Ants and the Pests they Protect
By Johan Gerber for Kannar Earth ScienceIt is advisable to control ants when they are protecting sucking insects such as mealybug, aphids and scales...
Beyond Beans and Seeds: Regulation through African Export Value Chains
Christopher Burke Senior Advisor, WMC AfricaCoffee, cocoa and sesame are regularly cited as commodities moving from African farms to overseas consumers. The description captures...