Tag: climate change

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes On Monday, 18 May, Western Cape premier Alan Winde, along with Colin Deiner, head of the Western Cape Disaster Management...

Estimated reading time: 1 minute South Africa’s growing water constraints are placing increasing pressure on agriculture, with industry and policy stakeholders warning that competition for...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Livestock and crop producers across the Western, Southern, and Eastern Cape are assessing the devastation left by a series of...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The changing climate is reshaping risk across the board. As conditions become less predictable, the real question is no longer...

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Food loss and waste is one of the silent catastrophes of global agriculture. Although it does not grab headlines like...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Extensive livestock production is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change, especially droughts and higher temperatures. It is therefore...

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes “It’s like speed dating on steroids.” This tongue-in-cheek remark by Debbie Bester, CEO of Senwes, was perhaps the most accurate...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes The 60th Congress of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa (GSSA) was recently held in Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal, drawing around 160...

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Climate change poses a serious threat to livestock production in South Africa, with heat stress emerging as one of the...

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Plaas Media announces fourth Veeplaas Climate-Smart Ambassador winner This year saw Plaas Media presenting the fourth instalment of its Veeplaas Climate-Smart...