Fairtrade Label South Africa celebrated their first ambassador this week, award-winning musician Loyiso Bala.
Genetically modified food gets consumed by billions of people across the globe. Please do what this incredible young man did and find out how your food is prepared before supporting a product. If an 11-year-old is brave enough to stand up and talk about this, then the rest of us have no excuse.
Most of us prefer to eat organic fruit and vegetables, but they are not always easy to get hold of. One might find one or two products here and there in a supermarket, but who has the time to schlepp around in order to take care of your family and the earth simultaneously?
Zimbabwe will suffer a one million tonne maize deficit due to drought, after nearly half of the national crop now coming up for harvest has failed, state media said Friday.
As the world commemorates International Women’s Day today, women around the globe are speaking out on various issues that affect them. In light of recent natural disasters and calamities in the Philippines, women are increasingly citing climate change as one of their most pressing concerns.
The rights of farmers are under the microscope this week as the SA government proposes legislation that will have far-reaching implications for seed and plant propagation.
This year, World Water Day was celebrated on 22 March and focused specifically on water and food security.
What attracted me to Waterkloof wines, as a horse lover, was that they use horses in their vineyards. I reckoned it was to lower their carbon footprint, but Christiaan Loots, the farm manager, assured me that it was economically motivated.
One of the serious fall-outs of the war on nature that crept into our society like a thief in the night - gradually and veiled as ‘progress’ – is the battery chicken industry.
South African president Jacob Zuma has declared his intention to have a decision on Agriculture at the UN COP17 climate negotiations in Durban; while the World Bank is promoting so-called “Climate Smart Agriculture” and carbon offsets as the future of African agriculture and climate solutions.
Over 100 civil society organizations from Africa and around the world sent a letter earlier this week to African negotiators attending the UN global climate talks in Durban, calling for them to reject efforts to place agricultural soils within a carbon market.
‘Farming for the Future’ is a holistic approach based on working with nature instead of against it, which seeks to combine the best of conventional farming with the best of organic farming. Woolworths recently audited 15 of their largest fruit and vegetable growers, who supply some 37% fresh produce on a total area of about 45 000 hectares.
“COP17 comes and it goes and then we are still left with this climate change”.
'Engaging the Private Sector for Africa's Agri-Food Growth' was the theme of this year's AgriBusiness Forum held in Johannesburg.
When you visit 'Harvest of Hope' for the first time you realise how little you know of what is happening in our communities.
An urban micro-farming project with 3000 home and community gardens on the Cape Flats offers a food security model for the country.
Conferences are known to be uptight, impersonal, tense and boring. Not the biodynamic conference. Biodynamic farmers have none of these qualities. The conference, hosted by BDAASA (Biodynamic Agriculture Association of South Africa) on 16-18 of June was held at a wet and muddy Bloublommetjieskloof in Wellington ' one of the first biodynamic farms in SA.
Poisonous spays from farms drifting onto people, `workers, children, family and neighbours` is finally coming to a head in the Boland.
We urge you to attend a public meeting to be held in Stellenbosch on Tuesday 24 November 2009 @ 15h00 to address the problem of pesticide drift poisoning the people of Stellenbosch and the surrounding areas.
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa guarantees the right of every person to live in an environment that is not harmful to their health and well being. However, exposure to pesticides, and in particular prolonged exposure to pesticides, poses very real health risks to both humans and the environment.
Livestock farming produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transport combined ' according to a recent UN report...
