The Organic & Natural Products Expo Africa will welcome visitors to the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 28-30 March 2025 as the Western Cape’s leading showcase for organic and natural products. The expo has been designed as a hybrid event that caters to trade buyers, while at...
New technology gives the agricultural industry an opportunity to improve productivity. But only if it can share and use the data. By 2050, the global population is expected to increase by almost 40% to 9.6 billion people. In order to feed this drastically increasing population, the UN Food and...
A 2023 study was recently awarded the Cozzarelli Prize from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences for its work identifying “forgotten” food crops in sub-Saharan Africa that may be more resilient to climate change than the region’s current staple crops of maize, rice, cassava...
by Wandile Sihlobo The Southern African region continues to face climate-related challenges that place its agricultural sector and food supply at risk. The mid-summer drought of 2024 has devasted the regional maize supplies, a staple food crop for the region. So far, the focus has been on the...
Cereal production prospects in Southern Africa have taken a sharp turn for the worse since last February, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned today (Monday/Tuesday). The foreseen shortfall in production, especially for maize, is expected to intensify...
Bühler : The food and mobility issues confronting the region demand innovative solutions, technologies, process solutions, and business models Johannesburg (South Africa), 10 April 2024 – Bühler Southern Africa is deeply committed to addressing food security, both a regional and continent-wide...
Liqui Moly Flow Grease, which was introduced to at the Nampo 2023 show, is proving successful in agricultural transmissions. Liqui Moly Transmission Flow Grease LP00 is particularly suitable for the lubrication of normally operated pivot gearboxes which operate at low to normal rotational speeds,...
As the country’s agriculture is export-orientated, the focus must be on safeguarding its seamless continuation. Attention should be centred on improving logistics efficiency, intensifying the promotion of South African products in export markets, and sustaining solid relations with existing...
East and Southern Africa is a climate hotspot, with more than US$45 billion in agricultural production at risk from higher temperatures, shorter growing seasons and more extreme droughts and floods. Maize, a staple crop covering up to 75% of cropland in parts of the region, is particularly...
