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December 19, 2017
Fruit account 33.2 percent share in South Africa’s total agricultural exports, and the majority is produced in the Western Cape province. In 2017, fruit exports are expected to increase by 9.8 and 5.5 percent against 2016, […]
December 14, 2017
Experts link climate change to a wide, and alarming, range of changes on Earth, including your dinner plate. That’s because rising global temperatures are already affecting the world’s food supply, shifting production of some popular items, […]
December 8, 2017
The City of Cape Town has just announced level six water restrictions for next year. At a city council meeting, Mayor Patricia de Lille said that the city’s collective consumption stands at 611 million litres per day, which […]
December 7, 2017
FAO, marking World Soil Day, launched a comprehensive global map showing the amount of carbon stocks in the soil. The world’s soils act as the largest terrestrial carbon sink, reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Intensifying […]