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5 benefits of pursuing agricultural entrepreneurship in South Africa

Entrepreneurship

5 benefits of pursuing agricultural entrepreneurship in South Africa

Phumla Mavundla 2 Jul 2024

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Property

Sustainable redistribution of land remains crucial to human rights in South Africa, as political parties jostle for voter support

Peter Setou 27 Mar 2024

Rural reinvention: Inspiring stories of innovation by entrepreneurs in Mpumalanga

Entrepreneurship

Rural reinvention: Inspiring stories of innovation by entrepreneurs in Mpumalanga

Monwabisi Mhlophe 31 Oct 2023

Healthcare

From fatal allergies to heart attacks and cholera - the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

Lenore Manderson 7 Sep 2023

Researchers to investigate plastic ingestion in Kenya's livestock, working animals

Agriculture

Researchers to investigate plastic ingestion in Kenya's livestock, working animals

21 Jun 2023

Finance

#BizTrends: The importance of financial inclusion and how the banking value chain will be reinvented

Clinton Abbott 19 May 2023

Joint indigenous veld goat project launched

Agriculture

Joint indigenous veld goat project launched

6 Jan 2023

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Agriculture

Subsistence farming can help alleviate food insecurity

10 Oct 2022

Queen Elizabeth, colonialism and land: ghosts of the past still haunt Cape Town today

Property

Queen Elizabeth, colonialism and land: ghosts of the past still haunt Cape Town today

Adam Haupt 15 Sep 2022

Subsistence farming stimulus vouchers halted

Agriculture

Subsistence farming stimulus vouchers halted

13 Jan 2022

How to narrow the big divide between black and white farmers in South Africa

Agriculture

How to narrow the big divide between black and white farmers in South Africa

Wandile Sihlobo and Johann Kirsten 1 Dec 2021

The proposed N2 Toll Road will cut through Sigidi village. Map: Lisa Nelson

Construction & Engineering

Should the proposed N2 toll road through the Wild Coast be moved?

Daniel Steyn 4 Nov 2021

Business investment competition calls on agri-entrepreneurs to enter

Agriculture

Business investment competition calls on agri-entrepreneurs to enter

25 Oct 2021

How mining erodes the rights of women

ESG & Sustainability

How mining erodes the rights of women

Tatenda Muponde 11 Oct 2021

Startups are the way to a new Namibia

Entrepreneurship

Startups are the way to a new Namibia

Joshua Romisher 1 Sep 2021

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Agriculture

Over 34,000 hectares of land allocated to women

16 Aug 2021

Poor rural infrastructure holds back food production by small Nigerian farmers

Agriculture

Poor rural infrastructure holds back food production by small Nigerian farmers

Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso, Saidat Adebola Daud 25 Feb 2021

Sowing the seeds of industrial farming in Mozambique

Agriculture

Sowing the seeds of industrial farming in Mozambique

Grace Goodrich 3 Feb 2021

Safari company launches innovative training programme in East Africa

Tourism & Travel

Safari company launches innovative training programme in East Africa

8 Jan 2021

The imperative to create shared value for Africa through investment in agriculture

Agriculture

The imperative to create shared value for Africa through investment in agriculture

Axel Smeulders 27 Aug 2020

Finding the key to agricultural growth in SA

Agriculture

Finding the key to agricultural growth in SA

Wandile Sihlobo 5 Aug 2020

Urban farming: Is it financially and spatially feasible?

Agriculture

Urban farming: Is it financially and spatially feasible?

Michelle Marais 17 Jul 2020

SA's hunger is everyone's problem - especially the well-fed

Retail

SA's hunger is everyone's problem - especially the well-fed

Mary-Jane Morifi 30 Apr 2020

Oil smeared fishboats on oily mud in the river during low tide at K-Dere, near Bodo in the Niger Delta region Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images

Energy & Mining

How oil and water create a complex conflict in the Niger Delta

Abosede Omowumi Babatunde 23 Apr 2020

Entrepreneurship initiative empowering SA's vital emerging farmers

Agriculture

Entrepreneurship initiative empowering SA's vital emerging farmers

Issued by Coronation 4 Feb 2020

Insights from Senegal: Involving farmers in research is key to boosting agriculture

Agriculture

Insights from Senegal: Involving farmers in research is key to boosting agriculture

10 Feb 2020

#EvolutionOfWork: Why Africa is championing the flexible workspace revolution

HR & Management

#EvolutionOfWork: Why Africa is championing the flexible workspace revolution

27 Jan 2020

Farming in South Africa is under threat from climate change. Here's how

Agriculture

Farming in South Africa is under threat from climate change. Here's how

13 Nov 2019

Chicken meat imports dominate the South African poultry market

Agriculture

Chicken meat imports dominate the South African poultry market

Natalie Berkhout 5 Nov 2019

Agriculture

Growing demand for natural honey from happy bees

24 Oct 2019

Africa is championing the flexible workspace revolution

Marketing & Media

Africa is championing the flexible workspace revolution

Issued by GO Content Lab 31 Jul 2019

Commercialisation of small scale farmers is critical to Africa's transformation to a global breadbasket

Agriculture

Commercialisation of small scale farmers is critical to Africa's transformation to a global breadbasket

Zhann Meyer 10 Apr 2019

Agriculture

New WWF Nedbank Green Trust water project brings KNP, smallholder farmers together

18 Feb 2019

Agriculture

New Year's messages from agri leaders

14 Jan 2019

Global trendspotter, Marian Salzman.

Marketing & Media

#BizTrends2019: Top 12 trends for SA and the world

Marian Salzman 8 Jan 2019

Medium-scale African farmers are relatively wealthy and influential. ©BOULENGER Xavier/Shutterstock

Agriculture

Medium-scale farms are on the rise in Africa. Why this is good news

Thomas Jayne and Milu Muyanga 18 Dec 2018

Africa agri-food development programme applications now open

Agriculture

Africa agri-food development programme applications now open

16 Oct 2018

Farmer2Market programme unlocks market opportunities for small farmers

Agriculture

Farmer2Market programme unlocks market opportunities for small farmers

16 Oct 2018

Zanzibar Red Colobus, endemic to Tanzania. Image by by Hasin Shakur, GFDL 1.2,

ESG & Sustainability

The fate of unique species in Tanzania's coastal forests hangs in the balance

Neil Burgess 12 Sep 2018

How the lack of affordable vegetables is creating a billion-dollar obesity epidemic in South Africa

Agriculture

How the lack of affordable vegetables is creating a billion-dollar obesity epidemic in South Africa

16 Aug 2018

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Agriculture

Repositioning family farming in global agriculture

Ntswaki Motaung 14 Jun 2018

John Capel, executive director, Benchmark Foundations

Energy & Mining

Mining communities' right to say no to be tested in court

23 Apr 2018

Agriculture

Agri-Teen Symposium to foster youth participation in agriculture

22 Mar 2018

Bjvisser via - Ethiopian farmer at work on his land.

Agriculture

Keeping up with climate change: Climate zoning as a tool to fight hunger

Ariong Moses 6 Feb 2018

Agricultural education and training: The landscape, challenges and opportunities

Agriculture

Agricultural education and training: The landscape, challenges and opportunities

Prof Charlie Reinhardt 2 Feb 2018

#AgriIndaba: Meeting the challenges of investing in sub-Saharan agriculture

Agriculture

#AgriIndaba: Meeting the challenges of investing in sub-Saharan agriculture

10 Nov 2017

Could the peatlands of Congo be a carbon bomb?

ESG & Sustainability

Could the peatlands of Congo be a carbon bomb?

10 Nov 2017

Agriculture

#WorldFoodDay: Transforming the agricultural sector by unlocking the potential of smallholder farmers

Dr Klaus Eckstein 16 Oct 2017

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Agriculture

The immense challenge of desertification in sub-Saharan Africa

Nabil Ben Khatra, Maud Loireau 9 Oct 2017

Africa's tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows

Agriculture

Africa's tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows

Elsa Ordway 13 Jul 2017