Conservation agriculture

Decide for yourself which of these two robust legumes will be best suited to your situation.

Crown vetch is a robust legume suitable for many regions in South Africa.

In this second part of our series on managing grasslands for biodiversity, grassland ecologist Dr Richard Lechmere-Oertel discusses guidelines and treatments for various systems.

Until recently, it was believed that the last quagga died in Amsterdam Zoo in 1883. Today, however, this iconic animal is alive and back in the Western Cape. How was it possible to revive an animal from extinction? Keri Harvey speaks to the Quagga Project’s Craig Lardner.

Lessons learnt from cultivating Sericea lespedeza.

In the first part of our series on grassland management, grassland ecologist Dr Richard Lechmere-Oertel explains that understanding how grasslands respond to burning and grazing is crucial to maintaining biodiversity and sustaining animal production.

Desperate times call for desperate and often innovative measures that can be of lasting benefit.

How to reverse desertification and boost profits.

There’s a bright future for beef produced from grass, but we need smarter veld management.

There’s no single recipe for improving veld productivity. Rather, constant refining is needed.

Cheetah on commercial farmland have value as part of a free-roaming population and should not be removed or relocated. Roelof Bezuidenhout talks to Vincent van der Merwe of the EWT.

Allan Savory’s approach to veld management is reversing desertification around the world.