There are a few critical policy areas that could have significant positive spinoffs to South Africa’s agricultural growth if implemented effectively. The prioritisation of implementation itself wou ...

South Africa is on a mission to improve its national soil health, and FIU is helping lead the charge. Over the summer, the agroecology program hosted a series of soil health workshops at leading South ...

The year 2025 was a generally good year for South Africa’s agriculture and the broader farming sector. We emerged from a drought and heatwave in 2024 and saw excellent harvests of crops, fruits, an ...

Farmers visit the Nampo agricultural fair, one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, near Bothaville, South Africa, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) BOTHAVILLE, South Africa (AP) — Days ...

Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Olaniyi Fawole receives funding from the National ...

Most African agricultural exports, however, go to non-African markets, requiring infrastructure and logistics investments to ...

As we look to the future of agriculture in South Africa and the broader African continent, several key themes have emerged, especially following the latest State of the Nation Address (Sona). Louis ...

BOTHAVILLE, South Africa (AP) — Days before South Africa's president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S. refugee ...

The dreaded crop-eating fall armyworm continues to spread across Africa like wildfire. This invasive insect pest, first reported in Africa in early 2016, is in more than 20 African countries including ...

Bothaville, South Africa — Days before South Africa's president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House this week, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S.

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