Opinion: Responding to crisis — growing Africa’s food systems

Sep 19, 2022

In recent years, Africa has been dealing with a multitude of overlapping food systems shocks — climate-induced drought and floods, locust attacks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and conflict. The World Bank warns that for each one percentage point increase in...

Aerial support to combat locust outbreak in the Northern Cape

Mar 11, 2022

With 33 farming towns already affected by outbreaks of brown locusts, the Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform had procured aerial support to combat the scourge. Adult locust swarms have already grown to...