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21 February 2021
Daily Maverick
The Auditor-General’s annual review of the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ finances has uncovered irregular, wasteful and unaccounted for expenditure and has issued a string of negative audit reports.
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22 February 2021
France24
Across the South African provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga, avocados and macadamia nuts have become prime targets for organised criminals, leading to millions of euros in losses for farmers. Private security companies now patrol the fields night and day to protect them from the gang
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19 February 2021
SABC
Northern Cape farmers are on high alert as fears grow over the movement of swarms of locusts that are destroying crops around the province.
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15 February 2021
Daily Maverick
If you want information from the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries about the policies and activities it undertakes, it will stretch your patience and sanity to a snapping point. But what are they trying to hide?
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11 February 2021
Daily Maverick
The government says a more than two-decade wait for compensation by families forced to make way for the construction of a multimillion-rand dam will be over in March.
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11 February 2021
Daily Maverick
We have to stop what we’re doing and find a new path to sustainability for people, wildlife and the planet. But this is far from simple. And any attempt will be doomed unless we can find a lasting way to deal with corruption and criminality.
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05 February 2021
Afrik21
The intergovernmental coalition for biodiversity wants to bring South Africa into its ranks. The membership of one of the 17 countries with the highest biodiversity in Africa would be crucial to the coalition's campaign. The coalition aims to protect at least 30% of the world's land and oceans by 2030.
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04 February 2021
Daily Maverick
No one alive knows more about the specialised and diverse plants of the Richtersveld than ‘amateur’ botanist Pieter van Wyk, whose family have lived and farmed here since the 1830s. Yet he’s seeing entire species disappear – it appears that up to 85% of the populations of many plants have died. So what keeps him going?
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19 January 2021
GroundUp
Water and Sanitation department says offers were fair
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19 January 2021
Daily Maverick
Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy has asked for a detailed report justifying the controversial recent decision to artificially breach the mouth of South Africa’s largest estuarine lake.
Rural development read moreWEBINAR: Is the Expropriation Bill an effective tool for transformation?
In this webinar, we'll look at the significance of the #ExpropriationBill and the changes that should be made to the Bill to ensure equitable access to land.
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Norway’s $1.3trn wealth fund blacklisted companies for ethical misconduct - including Sasol, Glencore - http://BizNews.com https://www.biznews.com/briefs/2021/02/25/norway-sasol-glencore#.YDsyvhyYvRM.twitter via @biznewsCOM
"Hunger is largely due to poverty and inequality, not scarcity. The decades-long “green revolution” push for industrial agriculture in India has left a harsh legacy of harm for both the ecosystem and smallholder farmers" @USRightToKnow https://usrtk.org/our-investigations/gates-foundations-plans-to-remake-food-systems-will-hurt-the-climate/
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Losing practices, relationships and agency: ecological deskilling as a consequence of the uptake of modern seed varieties among South African Smallholders https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F3EMVNPCX3BFUQKM2ZRT/full?target=10.1080%2F21683565.2021.1888841#.YDi0y76Szyw.twitter
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