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South Africans have suffered load-shedding since late 2007, and the country’s water infrastructure is now also threatened due to ageing and poorly maintained infrastructure.

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Two South African combatants are engaged in a mighty chicken war that rages through our media and in which the main battleground seems to be the letter pages of our newspapers.

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South African inflation on food and non-alcoholic beverages continued on an upward trajectory, reaching 8.6% in June 2022, mainly driven by price increases for meat (3.0 percentage points contribution), bread/cereals (2.1 percentage points), oils and fats (0.9 percentage points) and dairy/eggs (0.7 percentage points).

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South Africa’s regulations on agricultural pesticides are "ancient" according to a public health specialist.

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Indiana University researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing bees—one of the leading causes of honey bee decline.

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Farmers could continue to produce high crop yields with far less use of artificial fertilisers if they adopted environmentally sustainable practices, an academic study has shown for the first time.