Solving for hunger and agriculture sustainability with the platform economy
By : Nico Groenewald, Head of Agribusiness, Standard Bank
The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated South Africa’s social challenges, mostly...
Industry leading digital farming platform Climate FieldView™ launches in South Africa
A field in South Africa displays the Climate FieldView™ logo
The Climate Corporation, Bayer’s digital farming arm, has...
A Good Growth Plan for Africa to achieve a sustainable reset in agriculture
The Syngenta Group is keenly aware of its responsibilities towards the sustainability of our planet. For the company, as leading agricultural business...
The right tires for stony and sandy agricultural soils
I was originally an elegant retreat used as a base for hunting and subsequently converted into a farm. This is the Euston...
Soil health is the world’s health and farmers’ wealth
A global community advocating action to improve soil and root health was launched on 1 March with the inaugural One Earth, Root...
AAC targets 10 million smallholder farmers and agribusiness startups
African smallholder farmers and agribusiness startups need support to build resiliency and sustainability. A small improvement to their productivity via training, mentorship,...
Why Europe wants Africa to end crop protection in case science one day shows...
There is a certain state of mind where someone is so sure something is true they consider all information as proof, and...
Giving biofortified foods a boost in Tanzania
Women are the backbone of African agriculture and have been unequally affected by the impacts of the COVID pandemic. And yet, despite...
Cultivate Africa’s Future initiative empowers women farmers with access to finance
Female fish entrepreneurs in Malawi
Since the onset of COVID-19, existing inequalities have been further exacerbated, as already...
The Sustainable Solution for Food Production and Consumption
La Caverne Underground Farm Paris - Oyster Mushrooms
By James Wong, Ethnobotanist and Presenter of Follow the Food...