This has been a relatively quiet week in the South African agricultural data calendar.

icture an ideal dinner plate. If you’re like most Americans, it features a hearty portion of meat, from animals fattened on midwestern corn and soybeans, and a helping of vegetables, largely trucked in from California.

The agribusiness, commonly referred to as agrifood system has been undergoing fundamental change that is transforming traditional marketing relationships in response to changing consumer needs.

SA’s agricultural sector had a solid start to 2020, with first-quarter gross value-added growing 27.8% quarter on quarter on a seasonally adjusted and annualised basis .

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says keeping agricultural markets open, as well as fostering a more favourable business environment, will be critical to spur the renewed investment the world will need post-Covid-19.

Agriculture consumes more land area than any other human enterprise on the planet. Humanity’s demand for food is growing alongside increasing pressure on the environment and climate instability

Large-scale land acquisitions have been increasing in developing countries following the 2007/8 high food price crisis.

Despite numerous challenges, Israel succeeded in transforming its agriculture sector and emerged as a world leader in agriculture and water management.

The continent that is most at risk from the effects of climate change  Africa  recently played host to a major UN meeting to discuss the issue.

Some time ago, on the way home, I decided to buy an apple.

There’s a transformation taking place on farms across the United States.

Global agri-food trade has more than doubled since 1995, amounting to $1.5 trillion in 2018, with emerging and developing countries’ exports on the rise and accounting for over one-third of the world’s total, according to a new report issued today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

This is an important day in South Africa’s economics calendar. At 11h30 this morning, Statistics South Africa will release the Quarterly Labour Force Survey data for the second quarter of 2020.

The worst thing about an ANC government in South Africa is that it appears we are stuck with them!

Major global agricultural exporting countries are approaching the current Middle East crisis differently than they did in other recent crises.

In the midst of an unprecedented economic and health crisis one sector in our economy has outshone the rest. The agricultural sector expanded by almost 28% in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2019 and 15.1% in the second quarter.

As leaders gather in Kigali for the Forum's Africa meeting, the continents economic growth is once again top-of-mind. And if we are going to talk about economic growth, we must talk about agriculture.

The future of agriculture may draw more from its past than the presentIf you had to think about what is needed on a modern farm, you would think ploughs, fertilizer, pesticides, irrigation and the best developed seeds.

Electric motors are not new, but they have yet to make inroads when it comes to heavy-duty farm work.