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Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 4 Oktober 2022
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 3 Oktober 2022
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 30 September 2022
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 29 September 2022
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Dead fish breathes new life into the evolutionary origin of fins and limbs
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A trove of fossils in China, unearthed in rock dating back some 436 million years, have revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids, a ...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 28 September 2022
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
South Africa food systems and climate change
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
More and better-designed land ownership may be a fundamental aspect of South Africa’s long-term food security. But it is a massive, complex task tha...
Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 27 September 2022
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 26 September 2022
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Young cold-blooded animals are suffering the most as Earth heats
24 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is making heatwaves worse. Many people have already noticed the difference – and so too have other animals.Sadly, rese...
Agri-box’ will help Africa’s crop farmers
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To assist farmers in Africa in dealing with the effects of climate change on their crops, post-graduate students at Nelson Mandela University’s ...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 23 September 2022
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Africa’s Rapid Economic Growth
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many economies in sub-Saharan Africa grew at a record pace before the pandemic. Ethiopia and Rwanda, for example, saw some of the fastest ex...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 22 September 2022
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
New food packaging to make it more sustainable
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Along with food waste, food packaging is a significant source of pollution, generating approximately half of the packaging waste in the United States....
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 21 September 2022
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
South Africa’s agribusiness confidence shrivels in third quarter.
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fall in the Agribusiness Confidence Index (ACI) followed a more modest two-point decline in Q2 and is a worrying sign as agriculture has been one ...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 20 September 2022
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Shy male albatrosses prefer divorce to confrontation
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shy male albatrosses prefer divorce to confrontationMost albatrosses mate for life but shy males who avoid confrontation are more likely to get dumped...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 19 September 2022
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Regenerative Agriculture
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Regenerative Agriculture” describes farming and grazing practices that, among other benefits, reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic m...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 16 September 2022
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 15 September 2022
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Insects struggle to adjust to extreme temperatures in the world
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Insects have weak ability to adjust their thermal limits to high temperatures and are thus more susceptible to global warming than previously thought....
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 14 September 2022
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
What exactly is ‘climate-smart agriculture’?
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an important question, because agriculture and the deforestation that makes room for it generate one-fourth of all greenhouse gas emissions. To...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 13 September 2022
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 12 September 2022
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
The roots of biodiversity: How proteins differ across species
10 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To better understand what drives biological diversity on Earth, scientists have historically looked at genetic differences between species. But this o...
Deforestation in the tropics is driven directly or indirectly by agriculture.
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new study published September 8 in Science finds that between 90 and 99% of all deforestation in the tropics is driven directly or indirec...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk -Vrydag 9 September 2022
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 8 September 2022
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Blueberries and their pollinators aren’t native to South Africa but local honeybees can help
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Next time you see a bee hovering around a fruit tree, you’re probably witnessing pollination in action. Pollination is what enables a plant to produ...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 7 September 2022
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Why giraffes have short necks
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To watch a giraffe drinking is to observe the problem of a long neck. It must require a peristaltic pump that could drain a swimming pool. And don’t...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 6 September 2022
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
How safe is it to drink rainwater?
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In many parts of the world, including Africa, people rely on rainwater as a source ofdrinking water, as well as for other household and live...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 5 September 2022
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Drought and heat drive early wine harvests in Europe
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
‘It’s important to remember that the amount of rain falling from the sky is only half the equation. The other half is how hot was it, Hosted on Ac...
China, US compete for top spot in world agriculture dominance
03 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US sent around $26.5 billion dollars’ worth of food there in 2020. But since then, China has enacted stricter laws for food imports while contin...
New partnership investigates liquidation of farmer
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To stop the extensive liquidation of farmers by the Landbank, agricultural businesses and commercial banks, Saai entered into a partnership agreement ...
Glenfiddich launches rare Time, Whisky collection
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Glenfiddich has released a range of three luxury single malts, themed around time. The Time Reimagined collection includes 30-year-old, 40-year-o...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 2 September 2022
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Junior Landbou skrywers kompetisie
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dit is weer tyd vir die Farming Portal/Agricultural Writers Suid-Afrika se junior toekennings wat poog om akkurate stories en die oordra van inligting...
Climate change and ocean oxygen
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the last 50 years, oxygen-deficient zones in the open ocean have increased. Scientists have attributed this development to rising global temperatur...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 1 September 2022
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Evolution of land plants changed composition of Earth's crust, study finds
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A new study involving an international team of researchers has found that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Ear...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 31 Augustus 2022
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Greenland already locked into major sea level rise-
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rising sea levels—pushed up mainly by melting ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica—are set to redraw the map over centuries and could eventually...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 30 Augustus 2022
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Canada’s disappearing ‘average farmer
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The mid-size farm category used to cover most agricultural operations. These tended to be operated by a single farmer working on a full-time basis to ...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 29 Augustus 2022
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
South Africa as centralised dispensation is a failure in many areas
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“When a farmer must remove people from a farm, a crowd of voices goes up when the correct process is not followed painstakingly. In this case, the D...
Ants replace pesticides
27 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers found ants can replace pesticides to protect crops. In some cases, ants are even better at pest control than commercial pesticides Hosted ...
African digital innovators
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By 2030, plastic waste is expected to double to 165 million tonnes in African countries. Most of this will be in Egypt, Nigeria, South Afric...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk -Vrydag 26 Augustus 2022
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Europe is experiencing its worst drought
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Europe is experiencing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with hot and dry conditions fueling wildfires, reducing crop yields and reducing elect...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 25 Augustus 2022
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Achieving Net-Zero Emissions
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is transforming the global investment landscape, creating new risks and opportunities. Physical risks, from rising sea levels to the le...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 24 Augustus 2022
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Africa could become a significant buyer of Russian agricultural goods
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, Africa accounted for 12% of Russia's agricultural exports, the center said. This includes deliveries of 11.9 million tonnes of wheat worth ...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 23 Augustus 2022
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 22 Augustus 2022
22 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Technology in Agriculture
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the mid-1940s U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace spearheaded a program to help developing nations feed their growing populations. The program includ...
Private Climate Finance
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It will require massive global investments to address the climate challenge and vulnerabilities to shocks. Estimates range from 3 trillion to 6 trilli...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 19 Augustus 2022
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
African penguin population is crucial
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The fragile penguin populations depend on sardines and anchovies for their diet. Competition for fish stocks is high here, with sardine and anchovy fi...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 18 Augustus 2022
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Adapting to climate and market change
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Warnings about climate change are far from new. What marks summer 2022, is that it has become clear that the season is no longer a warning, but that i...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 17 Augustus 2022
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the ...
Africa needs a Green Revolution to end all its wars
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Green revolution implies increase in production of food grains (especially wheat and rice) by high-yielding hybridized seeds, mechanization, fertilize...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 16 Augustus 2022
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 15 Augustus 2020
15 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Precision farming
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The current economic environment has left the agriculture industry spinning. Farmers are looking for ways to maximize profit in a market where input c...
Biodiversity in the vineyard – looking to the future
13 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that climate change is breaking records for heatwaves, frosts, fires, droughts, hail and wildfires. Their increasing freque...
Europe is suffering under Climate Change
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With Europe suffering through an extreme drought worsened by climate change that has dried up rivers and left millions sweltering in triple-digit heat...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 12 Augsutus 2022
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Argentina is considered a high-income economy with a GDP of 600 billion Dollars in 2016 and a population of over 44 mill...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 11 Augustus 2022
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Precision agriculture exposes our food systems
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors, and other technologies to...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 10 Augustus 2022
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Soaring energy prices have sharply increased living costs for Europeans
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since early last year, global oil prices doubled, coal prices nearly quadrupled and European natural gas prices increased almost seven-fold. With ener...
Robot helps reveal how ants pass on knowledge
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The team built the robot to mimic the behaviour of rock ants that use one-to-one tuition, in which an ant that has discovered a much better new nest c...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 8 Augustus 2022
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Technical trends transform insurance landscape
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Technological development, though rapidly accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, has been changing the insurance landscape for some time already. Hoste...
Plants that feed livestock could be key to climate change mitigation
06 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The agriculture and land-use sector (which includes forestry) has a really invigorating role with this IPCC report,” he said. “It’s not enoug...
Fake Meat
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How are the animals that we slaughter raised, and who raised them? Whose plate will the meat end up on, why do we eat it, and how does it affect our b...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 5 Augustus 2022
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Data-driven technologies are key accelerators
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Flagship Digital Public Goods, such as the Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform, are one of the many concrete examples within FAO demonstrating how applyi...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Donderdag 4 Augustus 2022
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Water health in South Africa
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Water is a critical resource. Its provision should be seen as an enabler that facilitates socio-economic development. Water infrastructure needs to be...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Woensdag 3 Augustus 2022
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Wine and e commerce
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Covid-induced lockdown meant online shopping was the only available option, but that was on the back of increasing online sales. In addition, hand...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Dinsdag 2 Augustus 2022
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
The future of biodiversity and impacts the lives of 1.6 billion people
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 60 years, the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million hectares, a loss that contributed to the more than 60 percent decline in g...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Maandag 01 Augustus 2022
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...
Is the world retracting from globalisation
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 25 years there has been lots of research and debate about the concept, the history and state of globalisation, its various dimensions, a...
Germany to rethink its stance on nuclear energy
30 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Germany’s plans to shut down its last three nuclear plants by the end of this year could be scrapped now that soaring oil and gas prices are putting...
Food Trade of the world
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trade in food and agriculture can help balance food supply and demand globally by moving food from surplus to deficit areas. Higher food imports can i...
Daaglikse Finansieele verslag met Frans De Klerk - Vrydag 29 Julie 2022
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frans De Klerk is an independent technical analyst with thirty years of experience. His love for technical analysis and his specialization, in the Can...