More than water: villagers in South Africa mapped a river’s importance to daily life

When this South African river became polluted and damaged, nearby communities’ water and food supplies, incomes and cultural connections suffered.

Drought forces livestock farmers to make tough decisions

Drought is likely to reduce the total number of livestock southern Africa can support, and increase inequality among pastoralists.

Building the next generation of environmental defenders

In a world increasingly shaped by climate change, environmental degradation, and growing pressures on natural resources, the need for capacitating

Land Bank urged to finalise debt restructuring to resume lending activities

The National Treasury appeared before the Standing Committee on Finance to update the committee on an amendment to Section 45 of the Land Bank Act and the implications for business operations and budget allocations.

“He’s Losing Everything”: Daughter Set to Buy Eastern Cape Farm for Father Struggling for 20 Years

Why water rights aren’t enough to fix South Africa’s deeply unequal farming sector

Without finance, infrastructure and power, many Black South African farmers remain dependent on white commercial farmers.

When the rivers came for Kruger, the waters took everything

At Letaba, a wall of brown water turned an orderly camp into an evacuation zone. At Pafuri, the river tore the ground away. Four camp leaders remember the cold, the roar – and the tourists who would n…

Plastic waste is harming livestock in South Africa: smallholder farmers using communal land set out the support they need

As plastic waste spreads across communal grazing land, smallholder farmers are losing livestock, income and an important source of food and security.

At 86, Limpopo farmer still waiting for promised irrigation water

Shortcomings and delays with the Giyani Water Project has left small-scale farmers without reliable irrigation

World Nature Conservation Day: South Africa’s natural heritage is disappearing quietly

Most conservation losses do not begin with bulldozers, but with indifference – a landscape dismissed as ‘just scrub’, a patch of land assumed to have little value, a decision postponed until the oppor…