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Health and well-being trends in 2025

Trends

Health and well-being trends in 2025

6 Feb 2025

Safe and nutritious food – healthy communities

Food, Water & Energy Security

Safe and nutritious food – healthy communities

Namhla Skweyiya, Issued by FoodForward SA 19 Dec 2024

East Coast Radio season of sharing telethon: A resounding success in partnership with Pick n Pay

Radio & Audio

East Coast Radio season of sharing telethon: A resounding success in partnership with Pick n Pay

Issued by East Coast Radio 12 Dec 2024

Insect farming in Africa: A unique opportunity for a sustainable future

Agro-processing

Insect farming in Africa: A unique opportunity for a sustainable future

25 Sep 2024

African penguins, photographed here in Simon’s Town, could be extinct as soon as 2035, according to BirdLife South Africa and Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). Photo: Dan Callister / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Surprise move in litigation over African Penguins

John Yeld 21 Aug 2024

Learning more about elephants for World Elephant Day 12 August 2024

Environment & Natural Resources

Learning more about elephants for World Elephant Day 12 August 2024

Issued by Our Salad Mix 13 Aug 2024

"Lost crops" provide unique opportunity for food security in Africa

Food Security

"Lost crops" provide unique opportunity for food security in Africa

Zoë Karl-Waithaka 28 Jun 2024

Healthy-eating guidelines for the winter

Nutrition

Healthy-eating guidelines for the winter

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 31 May 2024

Medshield: Understanding vitamins and minerals as we grow older

Nutrition

Medshield: Understanding vitamins and minerals as we grow older

Issued by Stone 30 Aug 2023

Technology can boost farming in Africa, but it can also threaten biodiversity - how to balance the two

Agri Tech

Technology can boost farming in Africa, but it can also threaten biodiversity - how to balance the two

Thomas Daum, Frédéric Baudron, Ingo Grass, Matin Qaim and Regina Birner 18 Jul 2023

Funding puts insect protein maker ahead of food security fight

Food Security

Funding puts insect protein maker ahead of food security fight

30 Jan 2023

South African engineers are trying to solve the global water crisis

Infrastructure & Utilities

South African engineers are trying to solve the global water crisis

Neil Thomas Stacey 11 Jul 2022

SA needs a solution-driven approach to ensure access to safe and healthy food

Food, Water & Energy Security

SA needs a solution-driven approach to ensure access to safe and healthy food

Chrislynn Ramdeo 25 Aug 2021

Molecular-level detail of the interaction of trehalose bound to the mycobacterial LpqY transporter.
Credit: University of Warwick

Tuberculosis

Starving TB of sugar could help fight the disease

19 Apr 2021

Decades of disruption - technologies set to change our future

4th Industrial Revolution

Decades of disruption - technologies set to change our future

Howard Plaatjes 19 Feb 2021

Nedbank, Boland Trees for Bees to safeguard honeybees

Sustainable Farming

Nedbank, Boland Trees for Bees to safeguard honeybees

7 Oct 2020

A palm oil plantation in Malaysia. (Shutterstock)

Forestry

How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses

24 Aug 2020

Smaller farmer's fields can reduce biodiversity loss and increase wild plants, birds, beetles and bats

Sustainable Farming

Smaller farmer's fields can reduce biodiversity loss and increase wild plants, birds, beetles and bats

Lenore Fahrig 13 Jul 2020

E-commerce AC19: How Covid-19 is speeding up digital transformation in SA

E-commerce

E-commerce AC19: How Covid-19 is speeding up digital transformation in SA

Michaela Gabriel 28 Apr 2020

#DI2020: Designing new plant-forward African cuisine with Selassie Atadika

Design Indaba

#DI2020: Designing new plant-forward African cuisine with Selassie Atadika

Angie White 28 Feb 2020

Aquaculture farmers often use antibiotics this can result in antibiotic-resistance in seafood. Shutterstock

Nutrition

What we found about bacteria that resist antibiotics in seafood

Olumide A Odeyemi 3 Dec 2019

Kenya's Twiga Foods raises $30m in Series B round

Supply Chain

Kenya's Twiga Foods raises $30m in Series B round

28 Oct 2019

Separated display screens (TVs) at the site. Alison Stowell

Circular Economy & Waste Management

How potential of massive e-waste dump in Ghana can be harnessed

Alison Stowell 10 Sep 2019

Agriculture

Impacts of climate change on food security not evenly distributed, conference hears

5 Sep 2019

Bees: How important are they and what would happen if they went extinct

Sustainable Farming

Bees: How important are they and what would happen if they went extinct

Philip Donkersley 21 Aug 2019

Why rooftop farms may be the next big thing

Agriculture

Why rooftop farms may be the next big thing

30 Apr 2019

Climate change: obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges

Climate Change

Climate change: obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges

Rick Stafford and Peter JS Jones 26 Feb 2019

Zayed Sustainability Prize 2019 awards ceremony sees African innovators shine

ESG & Sustainability

Zayed Sustainability Prize 2019 awards ceremony sees African innovators shine

24 Jan 2019

How will climate change affect our eating habits in 30 years time?

Sustainable Farming

How will climate change affect our eating habits in 30 years time?

Taahirah Martin 3 Jan 2019

Palm oil boycott could actually increase deforestation - sustainable products are the solution

ESG

Palm oil boycott could actually increase deforestation - sustainable products are the solution

Jake Bicknell, Eleanor Slade and Matthew Struebig 19 Nov 2018

#FoodNextAfrica: How to ensure sustainable growth of plant-based foods

FMCG

#FoodNextAfrica: How to ensure sustainable growth of plant-based foods

Lauren Hartzenberg 1 Nov 2018

#FoodNextAfrica: The SA startup making ice-cream from insect milk

FMCG

#FoodNextAfrica: The SA startup making ice-cream from insect milk

Lauren Hartzenberg 2 Oct 2018

Why it's time to curb widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides

Sustainable Farming

Why it's time to curb widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides

John F. Tooker 28 Jun 2018

Nature's traffic engineers have come up with many simple but effective solutions

Logistics & Transport

Nature's traffic engineers have come up with many simple but effective solutions

Tanya Latty 11 Jun 2018

Keeping tabs on genetically modified crops

Agriculture

Keeping tabs on genetically modified crops

Dr Alec Basson 7 Jun 2018

dennisflarsen via

Agriculture

Honeybees hog the limelight, yet wild insects are the most important and vulnerable pollinators

Philip Donkersley 16 Apr 2018

Tiger Brands gives update on Listeria testing results

FMCG

Tiger Brands gives update on Listeria testing results

20 Mar 2018

Dizaphotographer via

Agriculture

International community must work together to achieve a sustainable, low-carbon livestock industry

22 Jan 2018

Moving beyond the Green Revolution in Africa's new era of hunger

Agriculture

Moving beyond the Green Revolution in Africa's new era of hunger

Calestous Juma 7 Dec 2017

Agriculture

Agriculture and food systems will play a fundamental role in mitigating climate change

15 Nov 2017

miguelibars via - Prickly pear

Agriculture

Africa must re-adopt its orphan crops in the face of a changing environment

Ethel Phiri, Palesa Natasha Mothapo 31 May 2017

Statement on the outcome of the HPCSA inquiry into the conduct of Professor Tim Noakes

Nutrition

Statement on the outcome of the HPCSA inquiry into the conduct of Professor Tim Noakes

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 24 Apr 2017

ADSA responds to Noakes verdict

Nutrition

ADSA responds to Noakes verdict

24 Apr 2017

Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility via

Agriculture

Crop-killing armyworm caterpillar reaches Rwanda, Kenya

21 Apr 2017

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Agro-processing

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Carla Tsampiras and Neil Overy 9 Jan 2017

Dr Klaus Eckstein

Agriculture

#InnovationMonth: Bayer seed innovation to benefit the entire agriculture community

Cari Van Wyk 21 Sep 2016

Chrstphr.jones via

Food Security

Pulses and "potjiekos" trending

31 May 2016

Bayer: Africa must become a farming state to feed a growing population

Agriculture

Bayer: Africa must become a farming state to feed a growing population

16 Oct 2015