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Die huidige tempo waarteen mense water misbruik, dit mors en ekostelsels (soos die opvangsgebiede van riviere) vernietig, sal daartoe lei dat die vraag na dié natuurlike hulpbron die aanbod teen 2030 met 40% oorskry.Byna 4 miljard mense ervaar reeds waterskaarste. Die hele wêreld ervaar egter ’n waterkrisis. “Die wêreldwye vraag na water en die verbruik daarvan is besig om die planeet se grense te oorskry. Dit lei tot fisieke veranderinge in die watersiklus. Hierdie veranderinge het nie net ’n invloed op grondwater nie, maar ook op reënvalpatrone en varswaterbronne. Dit sal ’n massiewe ontwrigting vir die wêreldekonomie meebring.
Food security: do we ever stop to think what that really means? When we are loading our trolleys or baskets at a supermarket or ordering from a restaurant or buying a quick hunger gap filler from a vendor, every time we engage in an activity that provides us with this basic requirement for life, we become part of a very intricate system. Food, like water, is essential to the very existence and dignity of human beings. Without sufficient food and water in the body, the body begins to break down its own tissues, resulting in organ failure. Therefore, access to sufficient food is not a luxury, but a basic right. Without access to this basic right, human beings are physically incapable of claiming and enforcing all other rights.
Terwyl baie kwessies wat landbou raak buite die departement se direkte beheer val, is John Steenhuisen Minister van Landbou daartoe verbind om te pleit vir hervormings wat die sektor sal help groei. “Die doel is om hindernisse vir landbouproduktiwiteit te verwyder en om ’n omgewing te skep wat groei bevorder.” Hy sê die departement moet ’n leidende rol speel om hongersnood en voedselonsekerheid te verminder. Luidens die nasionale verslag oor voedsel- en voedingsekerheid, wat Steenhuisen vroeër vandeesmaand bekend gestel het, ervaar byna twee derdes van huishoudings in Suid-Afrika voedselonsekerheid en 17,5% van dié huishoudings erge voedselonsekerheid. Hy glo vas die toekoms van Suid-Afrika se landbousektor is helder, met enorme potensiaal vir groei en ontwikkeling. “Die pad vorentoe is gevul met sowel uitdagings as geleenthede, maar met die samewerkende gees wat ek teëgekom het, is ek vol vertroue dat ons hindernisse sal oorkom en nuwe hoogtes sal bereik.”
Indications are that the winter crop is in reasonably good condition in some regions of South Africa, although the start of the season was challenging. On September 26, the Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) lifted South Africa’s 2024-25 winter crop by 2% from August to 2,72 million tonnes. This placed the projected harvest only negligibly (i.e., 0.04%) less than the previous season. This winter crop encompasses wheat, barley, canola, oats and sweet lupines. The upward revisions in the CEC’s latest projections were mainly on wheat, canola and sweet lupines.
Sakeliga het die afgelope week in ’n brief aan Minister John Steenhuisen opnuut beswaar gemaak teen die regulasies oor die tariefvrye uitvoer van landbouprodukte na die EU en Brittanje. Hy wys daarop dat die departement reeds ’n afdwingplan vir swart ekonomiese bemagtiging (SEB) opgestel het, hoewel die plan “gelukkig” nog nie in werking gestel is nie. “Dit is duidelik dat die departement nie Sakeliga se waarskuwings, versoeke en vereistes ernstig opneem nie, en eerder besluit het om die regulasies waarteen ons kapsie gemaak het te hernu,” skryf Piet le Roux, uitvoerende hoof van Sakeliga, aan Steenhuisen. “Dit beteken dat ons ons toetrede sal moet verskerp, wat dalk litigasie sal insluit, asook die betrekking van partye wat plaaslik en internasionaal geraak word.”
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About 60% of the world’s irrigated crops (by weight) are currently grown in areas facing high or extremely high levels of water stress. Rainfed crops, which make up the other 66% of the world’s total production, are vulnerable to erratic weather patterns. Globally, 8% of the rainfed crops the world produces are grown in areas facing high to extremely high variations in annual water supply, places where rainfall patterns may swing wildly between drought and deluge. READ MORE
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The urea market remains buoyant and seemingly in the middle of a strong upswing in prices. The Indians closed out the latest tender by fixing only 560,000t, which was the total volume that suppliers were prepared to sell at the tender price of $389/t delivered. The Indians ideally wanted more than 1 million tons, so the market is rife with talk of the next Indian tender being issued as early as next week. READ MORE
Ever since the land reform programme was initiated in 1994, the hopes of communities forcibly removed from their ancestral land have been dampened by the slow progress of land restitution and redistribution. Despite government efforts, it is clear that state resources alone are insufficient to address the complex issue of land reform in South Africa. READ MORE
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A new submission is being prepared to be presented to National Treasury in mid-November for the removal of the 15% VAT from chicken imports.The benefits to poor people will be the focus of the submission, according to Charles de Wet, tax executive at law firm ENS Africa, who is preparing it on behalf of the SA Poultry Association and the Association of Meat Importers and Exporters.
The urea market remains buoyant and seemingly in the middle of a strong upswing in prices. The Indians closed out the latest tender by fixing only 560,000t, which was the total volume that suppliers were prepared to sell at the tender price of $389/t delivered.
Forty nine percent of the South African population will go to bed hungry by 2025. This is according to the Shoprite Food Index compiled by the World Data Lab launched on Monday to mark World Food Day. However, despite the bleak forecast, the index shows that the incidence of people escaping food insecurity is improving. In August, food inflation in the country slowed to 8.2 % from 10 % the previous month.
Table grapes -The 2023/24 table grape export season showed notable improvements in terms of exported volumes and export prices,compared to the previous season. From a production perspective, this was underpinned by more favourable climatic conditions, which supported better quality and lower disease risk.
Suid-Afrika móét ’n ontwikkelingsbank – mét ontwikkelingsfinansiering – vir die transformasie van die landbou hê. Kortom: • Die Land Bank moet ’n ontwikkelingsbank wees • Kommersiële banke kyk anders na risiko • Die waardeketting bied geleenthede om risiko’s te verlaag
With the 7 rejections due to black spot (Phyllosticta citricarpa or CBS) recorded in European ports last September, the year's total number of detections of the presence of this dangerous fungus (whose control is regulated as a "priority" by the EU) in citrus fruit coming from South Africa is now 26.
According to Drewry, around three million TEUs of new tonnage expected next year will likely be more than compensated for by further market disruptions, offering no relief to struggling shippers. With uncertainty surrounding the possibility of more strikes at US east coast ports, the maritime consultancy considered scenarios both with and without a strike in January, The Loadstar reports.
With the changing weather most regions see a slight decrease in demand for strawberries, which are mostly eaten during the summer period. In the Netherlands there is enough product available on the market to supply customers, but supply is nicely balanced with demand. Belgians still see decent pricing for strawberries even though volumes have increased a bit.
Namibia and Botswana have sparked debate within the agricultural sector by imposing a prolonged ban on imported citrus and vegetables from South Africa – a move that critics argue goes against numerous principles of regional trade agreements.
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The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) has revised its inflation forecasts downwards due to faster-than-expected deflation driven by food and fuel.This was announced in the Sarb’s biannual monetary policy review released this week, the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) noted.
A new submission is being prepared to be presented to National Treasury in mid-November for the removal of the 15% VAT from chicken imports.The benefits to poor people will be the focus of the submission, according to Charles de Wet, tax executive at law firm ENS Africa, who is preparing it on behalf of the SA Poultry Association and the Association of Meat Importers and Exporters
Table grapes -The 2023/24 table grape export season showed notable improvements in terms of exported volumes and export prices,compared to the previous season. From a production perspective, this was underpinned by more favourable climatic conditions, which supported better quality and lower disease risk.
The South African wine industry celebrates a historic moment as Yvette van der Merwe, Executive Manager of South Africa Wine Industry Information and Systems (SAWIS), is appointed President of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV). She is the first female from Africa to hold this prestigious position since the organisation's inception in 1924.
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