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- Agriculture is still the biggest driver of biodiversity loss, but WWF's 2026 Living Planet Report says loss can be reversed.The Living Planet Index shows average monitored vertebrate populations in Africa fell 80% between 1970 and 2022, with 95% decline in Latin America.
- CRA Media is gearing up for something big in 2027: a major new project dedicated to honouring South African farmers and their families, the people who work tirelessly to put food on our tables every day. Details are still under wraps, but the team promises it will be their most ambitious farmer-recognition initiative yet. Keep watching their platforms for the official announcement and launch!
- The global legal cannabis market is today worth about US$69.78 billion, and this will skyrocket to US$216.76 billion by 2033.But is this boom benefiting indigenous cannabis farmers in southern Africa? They’d been growing the plant for hundreds of years before colonial authorities criminalised it in the early 1900s. Rural people continued to grow it illicitly after that, relying on its medicinal properties.
- Global goods trade is forecast to grow 3.4% annually from 2026-2029, up from 2.7% in the last decade, but growth will slow from 5.3% in 2025 to 4.6% this year and 3.6% in 2027.Growth is heavily reliant on AI - semiconductors and data equipment made up 76% of trade growth in Q1 2026 - leaving it vulnerable to an AI slowdown, plus risks from conflict and tariffs.
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- Grietha van Rensburg - Finalist in the 2026 Voice of the Women in Agriculture
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