Livestock
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Impact of Wildlife on Livestock Production in Zimbabwe
By Bioengineer December 30, 2025 Biology Reading Time: 4 mins Zimbabwe’s livestock sector in 2025 faced a pressing challenge: how to sustain rural livelihoods ... -
What Farmers Should Watch Out For in 2026
1. Climate and Weather Risks Despite progress in climate-smart agriculture, extreme weather events — droughts, floods, or heatwaves — remain a major risk. Farmers ... -
Nigeria’s Agriculture Outlook: Production Trends, Challenges and Expectations for 2026
Growth in Crop Production and Supply in 2025 Nigeria’s agricultural sector recorded steady growth in 2025, driven largely by improved output of staple crops, ... -
How Southern African Farmers and Elephants Are Learning to Coexist
Across Southern Africa, growing human–elephant conflict is forcing communities, governments and conservation groups to rethink how people and wildlife share land. As elephants increasingly ... -
SACU Still Leads Dairy Export Flows, But Non-Regional Growth Accelerates
Image Source: GEA South Africa’s dairy trade in 2025 continues to be anchored by flows into the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), though new ... -
Urgent health alert — Rift Valley Fever confirmed in Kakamas, Northern Cape
Rift Valley fever virus particles, illustration. Getty Images. The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture has issued an urgent health alert after Onderstepoort Veterinary Research ... -
South Africa strengthens beekeeping to boost food security and rural jobs
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has reaffirmed government commitment to expand and support South Africa’s beekeeping sector, calling honeybees “the farmers of the sky” for ... -
First Ever Large-scale climate Funding Targets Low-emission, Climate-resilient Dairy Systems in East Africa
Photo courtesy: @ILRI Nairobi, Kenya, October 16 2025: A landmark six-year programme to build a climate-resilient and low-emission dairy sector is now underway across East ... -
Global Climate-Livestock Conference Comes to Africa for the First Time
Professor Appolinaire Djikeng, the Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) addresses delegates during the opening ceremony of the 9th Greenhouse Gas & ... -
Is Biosecurity South African Agriculture’s Weakest Link?
The spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) into some of the country’s largest feedlots this year has once again exposed a systemic challenge – one ...
