South Africa’s 2022 vintage will wow consumers with exceptional quality wines, albeit from a somewhat smaller grape crop than in 2021. This is according to the annual South African Wine Harvest Report.

Economists are growing increasingly concerned about South Africa’s economy. This is because the country’s three major macroeconomic problems – lacklustre economic growth, growing inflation and very high unemployment – have been exacerbated by a series of major disruptions.

Small and medium-scale farmers and agri-businesses in east and southern Africa are getting a raw deal.

Climate and agricultural conditions No 63 – May/June 2022 -Johan van den Berg -Independent Agricultural Meteorologist (M.Sc Agric, Agricultural Meteorology, UFS),

South Africa has a three- to five-year window to enter and establish a strong position in the European medical cannabis market, before it is outstripped by hungrier and quicker competitors from Latin America and parts of Asia, and other lowcost producers.

Think the global fertilizer shortage is someone else’s problem? Take a look in the mirror. If you are reading this in North America, Europe, Latin America, or Asia, chances are that the bundle of amino acids staring back at you is alive today because of chemical fertilizers.

The National Wool Growers’ Association of SA (NWGA) invited the Director General (DG) of the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD), Mr Mooketsa Ramasodi, to its National Congress which took place from 1-2 June 2022 in Port Elizabeth.

The numbers released earlier today by Statistics South Africa show that in the first quarter of 2022, agriculture gross value added grew by 0,8% quarter-on-quarter (seasonally adjusted).

Putting the agricultural employment landscape into perspective

The world's biggest insurers are expanding in Africa, looking to tap growth promised by a rising population and middle class, but climate change could complicate their quest for profits.

A challenging paper appeared in a recent issue of the World’s Poultry Science Journal.

Something important for global agriculture happened this past week but received minimal media coverage.

South Africa has a ratio of 60 to 70 veterinarians per million people whereas the global norm is said to be 200 to 400 vets per million.

On 10 June, the Estonian foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to protest about remarks made by President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin comparing himself to the 18th-century Russian tsar Peter the Great. Putin, now in his 23rd year of power, drew a parallel the previous day between himself and Peter’s appropriation of foreign lands, including the Estonian border town of Narva. 

The rehabilitation of South Africa’s closed coal mines has long been a source of contention among miners, environmental activists and affected communities.

Running a fruit exporting company feels a bit like being an operational company that happens to sell fruit at the moment, an exporter remarks, when managing logistics and fighting for space and equipment on vessels take up most of their days.

South Africa's 2021/22 summer crop harvest is in full swing across the country.

A ruling by South Africa’s government to ban “meaty” names for plant-based foods has angered the country’s alt-meat sector.

At first thought, it was a seasonal issue, or there was some grand supply chain constriction problem — like with paper towels or hand cleansers.

The government has ignored a plea for assistance from South Africa’s leading inbound tourism organisation, for urgent intervention to unblock a “bureaucratic debacle” that is strangling the industry.