To address food insecurity, a collaborative approach is needed, with everyone from farmers to industry stakeholders, and banks playing their individual roles in making this a success. Steps should be taken to ensure farmers – irrespective of the size of their farms are able to access nances, resources and technologies to farm competitively.
Fields Steps May-July 2023: Succession farming as a business and the farm as a home
Times are tough and with the current economic climate, heavy lifting is required to get many people out of poverty and hunger. For meaningful and impactful development decision-makers must purposeful and involved.
Fields Steps Jan – March 2023: Wet start to the summer planting season
We will kick-off 2023 will a mechanisation handover launch in Taung in the North West province.
Mechanisation is becoming increasingly important considering the rising demand for higher volumes of food to be produced within a limited timeframe and as efficiently as possible, driven by the growing population.
The Golden Rule: Develop with the changing times
Despite the challenges that farming may bring there is nothing else that 61-year-old farming mentor Barend “Barry” Nel would rather do than to be in the open air with muddied boots, working the soil. He believes that farming is in his genes, and he promises that he would never desert it, even if he was offered an office job in the City of Gold.
After more than 40 years’ experience in farming, Nel made it his mission to mentor farmers across the country for the sake of food security.
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To A Bright(er) 2022
We are fast approaching the end of another challenging year which was defined by the Covid-19 pandemic in all aspects of life and work. It would be an understatement to say, that most people are hoping for a better and brighter new year!
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FieldSteps: Pandemic drives millions into hunger
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic could push more than 130 million people worldwide into chronic hunger by the end of 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)