Pulling the wool over … our faces
The pandemic face masks look set to be an environmental burden – disaster even – for decades to come. What about masks made from wool?
Wayne – Africa’s largest and leading gumboot specialist over the last 80 years
Wayne Safety started manufacturing gumboots an incredible 80 years ago, with Wayne Rubber producing rubber gumboots in KZN.
Friday again! (A look at employment in agriculture)
It’s Friday again and many of us are wagging our tails, so to speak. There is usually a sense of relief and anticipation on this time of the week as people look forward to being at home and enjoying a break from the office. Spare a thought for the many who are without employment at this time, some 30.8% of the working population (which, as we are sometimes reminded, doesn’t include those who are discouraged and are no longer pursuing the search for jobs).
The Wine Farmer launched to ease pressure on family wine farmers
The Wine Farmer platform aims to help sell surplus wine (a result of the lockdown ban), maintain employment, keep farmers on their farms and salvage the region’s economy.
Farming for Change
A 34-year-old from Benoni shares her knowledge with the community on how to grow their own food in a bid to address challenges of poverty and unemployment.
Hell for leather … er, mushrooms
We have used leather for thousands of years, for clothes, footwear, furniture, containers and “recently”, in motor cars. An article in The Conversation this morning speaks of the option of making leather products in the near future from mushrooms.
NAMPO Agriculture Expo & Conference now open and running!
This first virtual agriculture show and conference opened successfully in Pretoria, South Africa on Wednesday 9 September. The event is open until and including Saturday 12 September.
COVID-19 has hit SMEs in South Africa’s food sector hard. What can be done to help them
COVID-19 has prompted widespread discussion of the resilience of food systems and how efficiency and competitiveness have been previously understood. Recent decades have seen the growth of increasingly complex food value chains. These are underpinned by just-in-time delivery systems, a growing share of food products sold through supermarkets, and increasing concentration of ownership among powerful, large food manufacturers.
Wine consumption and sales: Saai soon in court
The family farming organisation Saai will urgently approach the Northern Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on 18 August 2020 to have the ban on the sale and consumption of wine in restaurants set aside.
Alcohol ban: What could be done instead
Thousands of jobs are in jeopardy because of the renewed ban on alcohol sales. The following steps would produce better results.