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SEDERT Rusland se militêre inval van Oekraïne kan die verhouding tussen Amerika en Suid-Afrika ten beste beskryf word as ’n onaangename weergawe van klimaatsverandering. In September 2022, tydens pres. Cyril Ramaphosa se veelbesproke besoek aan die Withuis, het pres. Joseph Biden na sy Suid-Afrikaanse eweknie as ’n vriend verwys en gesê: “The United States and South Africa and your government have the same value set.” Die enigste momentele ongemaklikheid tussen dié twee staatshoofde gedurende die besoek was toe die ANC-president sy kommer oor die Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa-wetsontwerp uitgespreek het, wat in daardie stadium voor die Amerikaanse Kongres gedien het en ’n ernstige bedreiging vir die bromanse tussen Cyril en Vladimir Putin ingehou het.
Global food inflation remains high due to Covid-19-induced bottlenecks and the effect of the war in Ukraine. SA is highly integrated with the global economy and domestic food inflation will trend in tandem with the global FAO Food Price Index. The current weakness of the rand-dollar exchange rate will further expose SA to imported inflation, which will probably prompt the Reserve Bank to continue reining in inflation, largely driven by food prices. Besides the Reserve Bank, the Competition Commission also expressed concern about persistent high food inflation and announced a pricing investigation on food items at retail and wholesale levels. As the economist Thomas Sowell remarked, “nothing is easier, or more emotionally satisfying, than blame.
India's announcement of severe curtailment of some rice exports triggered panic buying among the Indian diaspora in the United States, fearing a shortage of their food staple. The export ban on non-Basmati white rice varieties was imposed to ensure sufficient availability and control domestic market prices, following production woes caused by a brutal monsoon season and earlier than expected El Niño. The ban led to confusion and panic buying initially, with some Indian groceries experiencing shortages and long lines. The ban does not apply to Basmati rice, but economists warn it may hurt food supplies globally, prompting calls for reconsideration. In the US, imported rice from India is still available, but a long-term ban could deplete the stock, requiring adaptation and substitution for consumers.
In winning countries the economy determines politics, while in countries such as South Africa, politics determines the economy. A policy is not measured by its intentions; it is measured by its outcomes. The outcome of three decades of the ANC government proves their transformation policy to be a major failure. More of the same is just going to bring more of the same outcomes. That is why the EFF will have more success if they instead support the reasons for prosperity, such as healthy families, good schools and promoting the economic freedom of all to produce, regardless of their race or class.
"ONS BOERE- ONS LANDBOUERS van Suid Afrika is die prooi van lafhartige barbare wat geen reg het op bestaan nie- Mense wat geen respek het vir enige mens se lewe nie Die mense word opgestook deur militante sogenaamde leiers wat nog nooit iets gebou of ontwikkel het nie. Hulle is net daarop uit om te buit en om te vernietig. Meeste van hulle is uitstekende buite band aanstekers. Inteendeel dis dalk al wat hulle suksesvol kan doen. Die barbare weet dat hulle nie die vermoe het om enigesins 'n bydrae te lewer tot Suid Afrika en sy mense nie- en daarom vernietig hulle liewers al soos in die res van Afrika. " Wees wakker - wees paraat - moenie terugstaan nie -Verdedig julleself en pas julle gesinne op.
Urea suppliers maintain their optimism around ongoing price increases for the near term, on the basis that sales have been good and their inventories are fairly low. Buyers on the other hand are avoiding purchases if they can. READ MORE
The Citrus Growers' Association of Southern Africa (CGA) has requested President Ramaphosa to urgently intervene, and halt unfair trade regulations enforced by the European Union (EU) on our local citrus industry, in particular their discriminatory trade regulations on Citrus Black Spot (CBS), which is threatening thousands of jobs in the sector. READ MORE
Agriculture in Africa, as in a number of Asian economies, is the most important sector contributing an average of 20% to 24% of the total Gross Domestic Product of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In absolute terms, there are about 33 million smallholder farms of which an estimated 35,000 commercial farm units are in South Africa; 5,000 to 7,000 of these farms produce 80% of the agricultural output in South Africa. READ MORE
Global food inflation remains high due to Covid-19-induced bottlenecks and the effect of the war in Ukraine. SA is highly integrated with the global economy and domestic food inflation will trend in tandem with the global FAO Food Price Index. The current weakness of the rand-dollar exchange rate will further expose SA to imported inflation, which will probably prompt the Reserve Bank to continue reining in inflation, largely driven by food prices. READ MORE
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Women in agriculture deserves recognition. These women are in most cases graduated or with some form of post-school tertiary qualification and a leader in hear community, church, at the local school, clinic and plays a role in keeping the daily activities on the farm, running.A Women who forms part of the decision making on the farm, support her husband to adapt to the changes in weather, government rules, managing the finances of the farm as a business.A Women who offers an input before agricultural meetings and conferences. This Women has a direct input in the management of the farm and allows her husband to be a farmer and allows him to farm. A Women without a platform to raise her own voice.The reality is that men as farmers compete in competitions, wins luxury vehicles and invited to international agricultural trade and study tours, but never such an opportunity for women in agriculture.
ʼn Bekende aanhaling wat aan Albert Einstein toegeskryf word, lees soos volg: “Waansin is om dieselfde ding oor en oor te doen en ʼn ander uitkoms te verwag”. Daar word beweer dat hy hierdie aanhaling geuiter het in die konteks van diegene in die intellektuele gemeenskap wat gedurende sy era geglo het dat die werking van die heelal bloot aan toeval te wyte is. Alhoewel hierdie aanhaling binne die konteks van die ingewikkelde leer van kwantummeganika gemaak is, word dit vandag wyd in ander kontekste aangehaal. Dié aanhaling is ook van toepassing op die konteks van die politieke- en kulturele- landskap van Suid-Afrika.
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Die waterverspreiding van Afrika toon ʼn duidelike patroon wat ooreenstem met die relatief eenvoudige struktuur van die vasteland. Daar is ʼn paar groot rivierbekkens, asook etlike riviere wat nie in die see uitloop nie. Omdat dit in Afrika so min reën, loop sowat een derde van Afrika se water nie uit in die see nie.
Dit geld vir die Sahara en die Kalahari en die hoogliggende droë plato’s in Suid-Etiopië en Noord-Kenia. Die riviere in dié beskutte Oos-Afrikaanse bekken vloei uit in die Turkana-meer. Die groot moerasagtige Tsjaad-meer word waarskynlik ondergronds deur soetwaterstrome gevoed, en die Okavango-moerasse bevat – weens ʼn verdampingsproses – soutwater.
Die vyf grootste riviere van Afrika is die volgende: Nyl, Kongo, Niger, Zambezi en Oranje (Gariep). Hierdie riviere is baie belangrik vir ʼn kontinent waar duisende mense in ekstreme armoede lewe en baie gebiede vreeslik droog is. Afrika se riviere bring lewe in onvrugbare, dorre landstreke waar die water mense in staat stel om voedsel te plant en vis te vang.
Die groot riviere van Afrika het oor baie jare ook ontdekkingsreisigers en sendelinge na Afrika gelok, en dit is tot vandag ʼn bron van interessante feite en verwondering vir enigeen wat in die kontinent se geskiedenis en geografie belangstel.
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Bloutongvirus, ‘n ongeneeslike siekte wat beeste en skape doodmaak, word deur klein vliegies versprei wat in die winter verdwyn, of so is daar geglo. Nuwe navorsing toon egter dit is moeiliker om die vlieë te kry wanneer dit koud is, maar hulle bly steeds aktief.
Weather improvements in key grain-growing regions lowered global prices. Maize: CBOT corn experienced a 1.1% decrease for the week ending July 28th, compared to a 6.0% decrease year-on-year. This was due to improved weather prospects in the Midwest, slow US corn exports to China, and Russian President Putin's pledge to donate free grain to African countries.
Agriculture has long been the backbone of South Africa’s economy, providing livelihoods for millions of people and contributing significantly to the nation’s GDP.
During the month of July 2023, there were twenty-one farm attacks and four farm murders in South Africa. In June 2023, there were twelve farm attacks and ten farm murders in the country. And in May 2023, there were ten farm attacks and four farm murder.
Up to 13% of U.S. beekeepers are in danger of losing their colonies due to pesticides sprayed to contain the Zika virus, according to a research done by the University of Exeter and the University of California, Berkeley.
Mense wat nie vleis inneem nie, is geneig om ‘n swakker sielkundige gesondheid te hê as diegene wat wel vleis eet, het nuwe navorsing aan die lig gebring. Die navorsing het bevind vegetariërs/vegans het ‘n groter risiko om depressie en angstigheid te ervaar en hulself skade aan te doen.
New sorghum varieties developed by scientists from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) can help meet the nutritional needs of mothers and children in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new study.
There has been much talk of late surrounding the forecasts of a strong El Niño weather event in the 2023/2024 summer season and its possible ramifications for global agricultural systems over the coming months. El Niño is essentially a climatic phenomenon characterised by anomalous warming of the ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific.
Globale vleisverbruik sal na verwagting van 2023 tot 2024 met 1.8% groei. Intussen het Brittanje rekord-vlakke van rooivleisuitvoere in 2022 behaal om ‘n waarde van £1.7 biljoen te bereik.
BFAP researchers Divan van der Westhuizen and Helga Otterman attended the annual agri benchmark Cash Crop Conference in Nairobi, Kenya from 18 to 22 June 2023, which were hosted by Global Networks and the Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development.
Crocheted parrots are serving a double lifeline role – they provide a livelihood for the women who knit the cute toy birds whilst also helping raise funds to save the endangered Cape Parrot species.
Around 36% of American families have skipped meals due to financial reasons during the last year according to the fourth wave of the dunnhumby Consumer Trends Tracker (CTT). The study also found that 40% of consumers shop at multiple supermarkets to find the lowest prices, up 9% from a year ago.
India’s wheat production and ending stocks for the 2023-24 marketing year have been revised sharply lower, according to the latest Global Agricultural Information Network report from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the US Department of Agriculture.
In light of the ongoing dry season and its prolonged effects, the Panama Canal has informed its customers that it will maintain a draft of 44 feet for the next few months. The measure will be in place for “as long as weather conditions do not vary significantly from our current projections,” the Panama Canal Authority says in a recent release.
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As jy dom is en dink jy is slim.
"Farming needs to stop".
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) August 2, 2023
Good luck finding food then.
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