Across the world, regenerative agriculture is seen as a workable and attainable solution to improve and restore ecosystems while building resilience. It is furthermore seen to restore biodiversity, sequestering carbon below the soil surface, and increasing water holding capacity.
Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie (DWS) rig ʼn versoek aan die publiek om die departement se damveiligheidskantoor te nader vir leiding oor aansoekvereistes vir lisensies om nuwe damme te bou of wanneer hulle ’n dam wil verander of vergroot.
Die landboubesigheidsorganisasie, Agri SA, is uiters bekommerd dat indien die nodige voorbereidings nie nou reeds getref word nie, dat verskeie landbougebiede in die 2022/23-somerseisoen erg kan deurloop onder sprinkaan uitbrekings. Hierdie uitbrekings kan selfs groter wees as dié van 2021 en 2022 wat meer as 23 miljoen hektaar geraak het.
The year 2021 was one of critical conversations about global agrifood systems – the processes and methods through which farming produces food. Following on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic and a rise in global poverty, 2021 was a year for recovery and an urgent call to transform food systems if the world is to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets by 2030....