Simply put, southern Africans are experiencing heat stress more often than in 1979.
Acquired land was used mostly for raising livestock rather than growing fruit, vegetables or field crops.
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The government’s approach to redistributing farmland has been mostly ineffective. Failure can be attributed to limited implementation, poor institutional capacity and corruption.
Alien trees threaten biodiversity, increase the risk of wildfires and also guzzle water.
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Clearing alien trees from mountain catchments is a more cost-effective approach to providing water than building and maintaining desalination plants.
Alien pine trees, which use substantially more water than the native vegetation of the Cape Mountains, reduce river flows to dams that supply the city’s water.
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Pollination in South Africa’s ecosystems is extremely complex. However new advances such as pollen metabarcoding help us understand interactions between pollinators and pollen.
One of the major reasons for the lack of growth in pig production is high pig feed costs.
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High feed costs is limiting pig production in Africa. There are alternatives. The industry must find ways to use available feeds from industries that process agricultural products