Thousands of Woolworths frontline employees in the retailer’s stores and distribution centres now have access to private, day-to-day medical care, including general practitioners, dentists, optometrists, and acute and chronic medication, facilitated through the Momentum Health4Me Gold programme.
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In a significant step toward transforming Uganda’s agricultural sector, Itracom Fertilizers Uganda, led by Adrian Ntigacika, has signed an agreement to establish a state-of-the-art organic fertilizer factory in Kampiringisa, Uganda. The initiative, backed by a directive from the President of Uganda, aligns with the nation’s vision to enhance agricultural productivity through sustainable practices.
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At Applegarth Farm in Hampshire, UK, Seedleaves has launched a hyper-local vertical farming model that integrates production, retail, and dining under one roof. The 5,000 square foot “vertical barn” houses a restaurant, cookery school, and delicatessen, all supplied directly by crops grown on-site. Their mantra is: Produce it where you consume it.
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Urban Greens in Uganda aims to build micro-farm networks across East Africa with the motto; “We don’t just want to install systems; we want to create entrepreneurs”!
At the heart of their model is an integrated, modular aquaponics farming system tailored to Africa’s constraints and needs.
Agribusiness is the hidden jobs engine of Africa! With youth unemployment rising and cities unable to absorb the growing labor force, agriculture—still the region’s largest employer—must be transformed into a more productive, appealing, and innovative sector.
The time to act is now. Agriculture must be elevated from its traditionally overlooked status to its rightful role as a central pillar of sustainable development and inclusive job creation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The world has to feed a growing population with the same area of land and less water. Irrigation is key to managing this problem. A 10-year project called Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa focused on capacity constraints on schemes in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and how to solve them. This led to a new project which uses small-scale irrigation schemes as learning sites for circular food systems.
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The Regenerative Africa Alliance (RAA) have considerable knowledge and experience to contribute meaningfully to the trend to move agriculture towards a more resilient and sustainable future. In this article they provide perspectives on the recently published ‘Future of Fertiliser’ report by Anglo America with the theme Long-Term Direction of Agriculture: Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture (RA), Organic Fertilizers and Amendments.
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South Africa’s municipal market system is unlike any other in the world and expressly set up to integrate a broad range of farmers, ranging from new ones to those fully established, into formal food distribution networks, and has the ability to feed millions of people!
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aBi Development has unveiled an ambitious strategic framework aimed at fostering climate-resilient, green, and inclusive agro-industrial growth in Uganda by 2028.
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