FRA's biggest news from the week

FRA's biggest news from the week

Web version    Forward         NAMPO Harvest Day 2024: Optimal Yields Through Digitisation       Since its inception, the NAMPO Harvest Day has grown in leaps and bounds, evolving into the standard bearer of agricultural innovation on a one-stop platform in South Africa. The theme NAMPO Harvest Day 2024 has raised the bar, as the selection of the theme of 'Agriculture in the Digital Age' underscores. The theme couldn't have been more perfect. It has been deliberately selected to coincide with the time when grain producers are grappling with a myriad of challenges, including climate change, rising input costs, and supply chain constraints due to geopolitical factors beyond their control. Read more

Africa's Food Future: Scaling Up Proven Solutions. As former UN and current African Union Food Systems Envoys, we have firsthand experience of the complex challenges confronting Africa's food systems. Despite the continent's abundant natural resources, it continues to struggle with food insecurity and malnutrition.  Read more

"Waste not, want not " is the key to buying, storing, using food and saving money" Despite South Africans doing all they can to stretch every rand when they buy food, according to Stats SA, the country is wasting about 10.3 million tonnes of food, valued at billions of rand across the production and consumption process, each year.  Read more

Why development interventions in Kenya's drylands fail It's only mid-morning in a small borderland village in Moyale in Kenya, but the temperature is already soaring. Globally, temperatures are rising due to human-caused global climate change.  Read more

Stop Food Waste Day: Solidaridad stands in solidarity with Mozambique's women in agriculture in combating global food waste crisis As the world marks Stop Food Waste Day on 24 April 2024, Solidaridad stands in solidarity with women in Gurue and Mussorize districts of Mozambique, recognizing their invaluable contributions to the tea sector and agricultural development in Southern Africa. Read more

Turnkey agriculture solutions from the ground up from Bearings International As a trusted partner to South Africa's agricultural sector for some 66 years, Bearings International (BI) supplies integrated product and service solutions that ingrain the entire agriculture supply chain. "From soil preparation, fertilizing, ploughing and planting to irrigation, harvesting, processing and packaging – we've got it covered," says Andrew Altree, BI Agriculture Segment Lead. "We essentially have products for all seasons." Read more

Intelsat, CNH Smart Farming Satellite Connectivity Coming to Brazil Intelsat, operator of one of the world's largest integrated satellite and terrestrial networks, and CNH (NYSE: CNHI), whose brands include Case IH, New Holland and Steyr, agreed to install, connect and operate ruggedized multi-orbit satellite terminals on CNH farm equipment operating in remote farmland throughout Brazil with Intelsat's global network. Read more

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