WEEKEND-VIEWPOINT- Agricultural pesticides and public health remains a major unresolved challenge
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The tension between agricultural productivity and public health remains one of the most persistent and unresolved challenges in many countries, particularly those where agriculture employs the vast majority of the population.Agrochemicals play a vital role in modern farming.
VIEWPOINT-South African Farmers and costs of tractors, farming machinery and other inputs in 2026
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VIEWPOINT-The global fertilizer situation has become a major headache for world food production.
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We had another long weekend in South Africa, and the first quarter of 2026 is already behind us.
WEEKEND-VIEWPOINT- South Africa’s Foot-and-Mouth Disease Crisis going on
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South Africa is still waiting months for critical laboratory results to determine which strains of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are circulating across the country.
VIEWPOINT-South African Farmers Deserve Better: Time to Stop the Squeeze
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We are heading into another long weekend in South Africa, and the first quarter of 2026 is already behind us.
VIEWPOINT- Beyond 30 Years of Challenges – Eskom, Diesel, Electric Trucks, and a System on the Brink
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South Africa’s citizens continue to grapple with deep-rooted structural problems that have persisted for decades: high unemployment, inequality, crime, and slow economic growth. Yet a new and compounding layer of difficulty has emerged — the slow-motion collapse of critical infrastructure that affects every aspect of daily life and economic activity.
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- 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.
- Agriculture continues to be one of South Africa’s strongest contributors to economic growth, food security and employment, despite growing economic and climate-related pressures.
- Farmers are using artificial intelligence to help grow food by combatting disease and pests,often times made worse by climate change, pesticide use, and more.You need real farming intelligence implanted in your DNA to use all these tegnologies in a world where nature is in charge and you need real men and women to get all of this in sync with each other to create perfect growth.
- Nature conservation literature and policy instruments mainly focus on the impacts of human development and the benefits of nature conservation for oceans and aboveground terrestrial organisms (e.g., birds and plants) and processes (e.g., food production), but these efforts almost completely ignore the majority of terrestrial biodiversity that is unseen and living in the soil.
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