The market is growing at a faster pace with the growing importance of healthy eating and consumers are more frequently choosing nuts as a healthy snack option and incorporating them into their daily diets. In addition, organic macadamia is also gaining popularity with increasing demand coming majorly from the European countries. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 17, 2023•4 min
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Jul 14, 2023•5 min
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2023-2032 provides an assessment of the ten-year prospects for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional, and global levels in a context of continued economic risks, uncertainty, and high energy prices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 13, 2023•7 min
The European Commission has proposed making gene-edited plants much easier to study and commercialize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 11, 2023•3 min
They found a surprisingly strong correlation. Using only information on beak shape and size, they were able to correctly predict broad nest material use in 60% of species, rising to 97% in some cases. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 10, 2023•3 min
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Jul 07, 2023•5 min
The European Commission is proposing to mobilize additional funding for farmers impacted by adverse conditions. The new support package will consist of 330 million Euro (about $359 million) to be allocated among 22 member states. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 06, 2023•3 min
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Jun 30, 2023•6 min
The latest El Nino climate phenomenon has arrived, threatening floods in some areas of the world and droughts in others. Previous disruptive weather patterns cost the global economy trillions and stoked inflation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 29, 2023•3 min
Almost a quarter of a billion people are now at risk of hunger as conflict, drought and flooding combined to wreak havoc on farms and food supply chains in 2022, according to the latest report. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 26, 2023•3 min
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Jun 23, 2023•5 min
When combined with iridescent colouration, a matt target surface appearance confers greater survival benefits in beetles than a glossy surface, scientists at the University of Bristol have found. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 22, 2023•3 min
According to another FAO study, 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to livestock farming. The industry releases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, which cause harm to varying degrees. Methane and nitrous oxide do not linger in the air as long as carbon dioxide, but their climate warming potential is higher than carbon dioxide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 20, 2023•3 min
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Jun 16, 2023•6 min
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Jun 15, 2023•4 min
Extinct kangaroos used alternative methods to their famous hop according to comprehensive analysis from University of Bristol and the University of Uppsala scientists. Although hopping is regarded as a pinnacle of kangaroo evolution, the researchers highlight those other kinds of large kangaroos, in the not-too-distant past, likely moved in different ways such as striding on two legs or traversing on all fours. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 13, 2023•6 min
Stories of virgin births, where young are produced without fertilization, have been told throughout history . Mars the ancient Roman god, Horus the ancient Egyptian god and Qi from ancient Chinese mythology were all born to virgins. But virgin births do happen in the natural world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 12, 2023•6 min
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Jun 09, 2023•5 min
A team of researchers from the University of Bristol have shed light on the life of the ancient reptile Rhynchosaur, which walked the earth between 250-225 million years ago, before being replaced by the dinosaurs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 08, 2023•4 min
Human influences have the potential to reduce the effectivity of communication in bees adding further stress to struggling colonies, according to new analysis. Scientists at the University of Bristol studying honeybees, bumblebees and stingless bees found that variation in communication strategies are explained by differences in the habitats that bees inhabit and differences in the social lifestyle such colony size and nesting habits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 06, 2023•3 min
South Africa is currently in the grip of its worst-ever power cuts, while coal exports fell to a 30-year low in 2022 because of the poor performance of the national freight rail company. That, coupled with poor water infrastructure and inefficient ports, is stifling investment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 05, 2023•3 min
Agriculture Healines of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 02, 2023•4 min
The World Bank has been tracking carbon markets for around two decades and the annual State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report is now in its tenth year. When the first report was published a decade ago, only 7% of global emissions were covered by either a carbon tax or an ETS. Today, as highlighted in the 2023 report, almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions (23%) are now covered by 73 instruments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 01, 2023•3 min
South Africa’s central bank has warned of dire consequences should the country face censure due to its stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At worst, secondary, or indirect sanctions could be imposed on the country and lead to a sudden halt to capital inflows and increased outflows, the bank said in its latest financial stability review published on Monday. It cautioned that South Africa’s financial system would be unable to function if its ability to make international payments in dollars wa...
May 30, 2023•3 min
Climate change-driven shifts in the circulation of waters to the deepest reaches of the ocean around Antarctica, which could reverberate across the planet and intensify global warming, are happening decades "ahead of schedule", according to new research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 29, 2023•4 min
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May 26, 2023•4 min
The government of South Africa is weighing new anti-dumping tariffs of up to 232% on a range of products imported from China and India, ostensibly to protect local industry. Bad plan. The International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC), a bunch of pencil-pushers tasked with second-guessing the ‘proper’ pricing of imports, has asked Ebrahim Patel, the communist in charge of the Department of Trade Barriers, Deindustrialisation and Collusion (DTIC), to impose ‘anti-dumping’ tariffs on a numbe...
May 25, 2023•7 min
Natural gas might be the same commodity everywhere in the world, but prices can vary dramatically because of the complex network of infrastructure needed to transport it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 24, 2023•4 min
New research from Queen Mary University of London shows that only around 13% of global methane emissions are regulated, despite methane emissions causing at least 25% of current global warming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 22, 2023•4 min
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May 19, 2023•7 min
