Wildlife decline is draining Africa’s ecosystems of functional energy      The Thermodynamics of Soil, Turning Fossil Fuels into Food vs. Turning Sunlight into Life.      Vertical farming: a local solution for greens, but not feeding the world any time soon      Chinese Wine Is No Longer Imitating Europe — It’s Defining Itself      Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why      More than 20% of Earth’s plant species are found only on islands – and time is running out to save them      New wildlife quotas reopen fault lines over hunting, science and governance      VIEWPOINT- Sugar Industry Crisis as Tongaat Hulett      China to grant zero tariffs on South African wine under new trade pact      South Africa -Weeklikse Landbou Nuusoorsig - Weekly Agriculture News Summary 18th February 2026