Agricultural Evolution: Tech trends bring new risks

Technological development, though rapidly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has been changing the insurance landscape for some time already.
Amazing ting: South Africa must reinvigorate sorghum as a key food before it’s lost

The world’s food systems have developed in a way that is not serving health and sustainability.
Africa is a treasure trove of medicinal plants: here are seven that are popular

Africa is endowed with up to 45,000 plant species – about 25% of the world’s plant genetic resources. More than 5,000 plant species from this enormous African resource are used in traditional medicines.
Morocco – a top fertiliser producer – could hold a key to the world’s food supply

Morocco has a large fertiliser industry with huge production capacity and international reach. It is one of the world’s top four fertiliser exporters following Russia, China and Canada.
Enel Green Power South Africa connects Karusa Wind Farm to the national grid

Karusa wind farm in South Africa’s Western Cape province achieved commercial operation giving the national grid access to an additional 147 MW of renewable energy.
Chicken import tariff explainer

These are the main types of tariffs or duties that apply to chicken imports into South Africa.
Gardeners in South Africa may hesitate to use greywater – but it can be a crop saver

After three consecutive dry winters from 2015 to 2017, “Day Zero” – when the taps would run dry – loomed large for the South African city of Cape Town and its surrounds in 2018.
Rising food prices hit poor people the hardest: a close look at inflation in South Africa

Concerns about rising food prices are making the headlines across the world as pressures mount in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Is going off grid SA’s biggest energy myth?

This continuous disruption of load shedding to productivity is costing South African businesses, and the economy, money they can’t afford to lose.
Celebrating a decade of Journey of Water

Since 2013, WWF South Africa has been taking influential South Africans on a Journey of Water through some of the country’s key water catchments to highlight the importance of a healthy natural environment for water security.