Beyond disease control: getting more bang for your buck
By Andries Duvenhage: Campaign Lead: Cereals, Deciduous Fruit & Veg
Crop 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...
Race Against Climate Change: How New Potato and Sweetpotato Varieties Are Delivering Results
Ever wondered what it takes to develop a new crop variety? Just like preparing for a marathon, developing a new variety is a carefully...
Stronger, Smarter Drives: How BMG’s Integrated Technology Powers Sugar Mills
BMG is participating at the 98th South African Sugar Technologists’ Association (SASTA) conference, which is taking place at the Olive Convention Centre in Durban,...
Rethinking Aid in Rural Tanzania: How Monthly Micro-Savings Transform Lives
For years, US agencies involved in foreign aid advocated “localization.” This means relying on local people, organizations and communities to provide the kind of...
Counties Move to Put Youth at the Centre of the Agrifood Economy
With food systems facing mounting pressures from climate change, population growth and changing consumer demands, the participation of a new generation of entrepreneurs and...
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 Kenya
As warnings about a strengthening El Niño mount, governments, agribusinesses and farmers across Africa are once...
Global Soil Data Gets a Lift as Varda Foundation Open Sources SoilHive Platform
New open-source platform will support governments, researchers and the wider industry to securely share trusted soil data while retaining national ownership
Varda Foundation today announced...
Ants and the Pests they Protect
By Johan Gerber for Kannar Earth Science
It is advisable to control ants when they are protecting sucking insects such as mealybug, aphids and scales...