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Biosciences executive director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Gatsha Mazithulela, said the Africa Biofortified Sorghum (ABS) project will only appeal government's decision to reject its application to proceed with greenhouse experiments on transgenic sorghum once all the possible avenues have been exhausted.
Issue date: 2 March 2007

by Dr Koos Coetzee an agricultural economist at the MPO
Issue Date 16 February 2007

Research conducted in Hopefield, Western Cape, aim to show that with an understanding of protea nutrition farmers could improve their protea yields while supporting biodiversity. Issue date: 23 February 2007

In the third part of our habitat planning series, biologist and habitat designer Ben Breedlove exlains how to create optimal animal-human meeting points. Issue Date: 16 February 2007

Despite good pre-season rains in the western grain-producing regions of South Africa, a dry mid-season accompanied by very high temperatures and high winds are placing crops under stress.

It's big, it's flat, it's a land of extremes - including blistering droughts. But while farming remains a ­fundamental part of Australian life, it has taken a heavy toll on the enviroment. Chris and Mathilde Stuart take a tour of ­Australia and discovered problems that make South African farmers' woes seem almost manageable.

Prof Sam Moyo, the director of the African Institute of Agrarian Studies in Harare, said Zimbabwe would not change its stance on white commercial farmers who lost their land d­uring the country's land reform programme

Despite farming in marginal areas suited for cattle breeds that can ­withstand harsh conditions, some North West farmers still believe bigger is better. They farm with large-framed animals that force them to dig deeper into their pockets to maintain them. Jones Moraka of the Limpopo Department of Agriculture looks at the merits of the Western Sanga indigenous cattle as a viable alternative.