Millions of farmers across Africa play a crucial role in preserving crop diversity by cultivating traditional crop varieties, ...
As droughts induced by climate change increase, South Africa’s small-scale farmers need to adapt to the changed farming environment so that they can continue to produce food. As geographers who ...
While climate adaptation strategies and sustainable farming practices thrive in small to medium farms, commercial farmers are still behind on the journey because of the costs of chemical-free or ...
This is likely to be a year of recovery for South Africa’s agriculture. Much of the county benefited from the La Niña rains, but they were late in regions such as Delmas in Mpumalanga ...
If one looks at the data, South Africa’s agriculture remains an outlier in Africa. The sector has more than doubled in value and volume terms since 1994. The adoption of new production ...
Africa's small-scale farmers make up nearly 80% of all farms in the agriculture sector. In South Africa, there are about 2 million small-scale farmers, predominantly Black and based in the eastern ...