Following the killing of Famer Stefan Smit on the Louiesenhof Wine Estate at Stellenbosch, Western Cape ministers of agriculture and community safety and other government officials have met to brief media on the incident
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Corteva Agriscience completes separation from DowDuPont
Corteva, Inc has separated from DowDuPont, becoming a global pure-play agriculture company that offers solutions to maximise farming yield and profitability
High-tech solutions to benefit uMsinga’s women-run farming cooperatives
AGCO, Your Agriculture Company, is positioned to be the driving force in setting up an agribusiness in the community of Msinga, with an aim to develop a sustainable and prosperous agricultural industry across Africa
Scottish farmers visited floating farm
Fifteen Scottish Enterprise Rural Leaders and five Rural Youth Project delegates were the first to experience Rotterdam’s floating dairy in action on a recent urban/rural learning journey to the Netherlands
GODAN conducts high-level agricultural policy meetings in Ghana
Andre Laperriere, executive director of the GODAN Initiative (Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition), was in Ghana this week at a series of meetings with ministers and representatives from the public and private sector as part of its efforts to support common open data and agricultural policy in eastern Africa