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/ 13 December 2010
More SA farmers expect to receive land offers in Mozambique as they seek to expand across Africa amid uncertainty over land reform at home.
Joemat-Pettersson acknowledges the importance of their role in a future South Africa.
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/ 15 October 2009
Bill Gates on Thursday will unveil grants totalling $120-million to promote dynamic, home-grown, sustainable agriculture in Africa and India.
It’s not true that male menopause is only about younger women and faster cars. Quite a few men of a certain age yearn to own a farm in the Karoo.
Congo wants to amend the terms of a multi-million hectare land deal with South African farmers, a top aide said on Wednesday.
SA’s agriculture minister said on Tuesday SA would not seize white farms to redistribute to black South Africans as this would harm its economy.
The success of the Fort Hare Dairy Trust cuts a stark contrast to a government-owned ostrich farm in Hammanskraal in Pretoria.
A land rights group has rejected Land Affairs Minister Lulu Xingwana’s ”use it or lose it” hard line on land redistribution.
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/ 21 January 2009
Zimbabwe faces another huge food deficit in 2009 due to continued falls in farm production, a report by a farmers’ union said on Wednesday.
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/ 21 November 2008
There is no place for large farms in South Africa and some areas of game parks should be distributed to the landless, says a top land official.
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/ 10 November 2008
The oil-dependent production of cereal crops could be replaced by a traditional method, writes Graham Harvey.
Agriculture is the future of Africa, says Professor Richard Mkandawire, New Partnership for Africa’s Development’s (Nepad) agricultural adviser.
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/ 30 October 2008
The South African government has earmarked R300-million in the foreign affairs budget vote to assist Zimbabwe’s struggling agricultural sector.
An initiative in Swaziland is improving food security by teaching children how to sustain crops, writes Mantoe Phakathi.
Rwanda has implemented a long-delayed ban on the import and use of chlorofluorocarbon gases that damage the ozone layer.
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/ 28 September 2008
More than 350 000 small-scale farmers in Africa and Central America will soon begin selling produce to the UN.
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/ 23 September 2008
The Karoo town of Merweville is going through the worst drought in nearly 50 years, writes Pearlie Joubert.
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/ 17 September 2008
A regional tribunal on Wednesday dismissed the land claims of 343 black Zimbabwean farmers who argued they cannot move on to seized white-owned farms.
Malwi’s irrigation programme, which began in January, is already showing signs of success and is encouraging crop diversification.
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/ 4 September 2008
What happens to a nation whose people depend on the largesse of international donor agencies for their existence, once support is withdrawn?
Geographic information systems could play a vital role in improving agriculture and boosting food security in Africa.
Nosimilo Ndlovu reports on community efforts to deal with the food crisis from both a South African and Malawian point of view.
South African fruit and wine farmers have launched an initiative to determine the environmental impact of their industries.
A BEE deal on a farm in the Koue Bokkeveld provides a symbol of what transformation can achieve, writes Barrie Terblanche.
Changing weather patterns in Uganda have wreaked havoc on the country, writes Warren Foster.
Hussein Ibrahim walked solemnly past tidy rows of bright green cabbages, vines bursting with tomatoes and trees weighed down with plump avocados.
”No farmers, no future.” So says the bumper sticker on farmer Bully Botma’s white bakkie, parked in Bothaville, South Africa’s mealie capital.
African farmers are already adapting to climate change, according to case studies in Bénin, Kenya and Malawi.
The perennial political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe has wreaked havoc with the country’s once-thriving tobacco industry.
The Expropriation Bill could seriously damage South Africa’s international creditworthiness, former president FW de Klerk said on Wednesday.
Drought-ravaged Ethiopia should improve its ”backward” farming systems to curb acute food shortages, a top World Bank official said on Wednesday.
Food prices are expected to rise rapidly in the next year because farmers are planting less as input costs escalate.