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Though biotechnology is most often seen as a tool to meet Africa’s food needs, it could also play a role in protecting the continent’s unique biodiversity.

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Chocolate in all its forms is something that I, along with many others like to indulge in on an almost daily basis.

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Scientists and policymakers are puzzling over how to get rid of a group of toxic chemicals found in streams and drinking water.

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There are two important answers to the question “why do we need more trees in farmland?” One is global and one is local.

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Soils provide many important functions for plants, animals and humans. The most obvious is for supporting growing crops, plants and trees in the wild, on the farm and in our gardens - but there are lots of others too. For example soil is very important as a home, or habitat, for the teeming millions of soil organisms. It is quite amazing how much variety of life exists in soil.

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As South Africa seems to remain woefully static, the world around us is undergoing seismic shifts. That is not to say we are not deeply impacted, we are, but we are not responding effectively to these changes. This is an uncomfortable truism.