AFTER several years trying to curtail the rapid spread of Foot and Mouth disease across South Africa, the livestock sector there is now in crisis. South Africa lost its FMD free status in 2019, ...

The VMBS research team, led by associate professor Dr. Angela Arenas, studied more than 4,600 livestock animals and found ...

A new study combines drone data, satellite observations, and ground-based flux measurements to examine methane emissions from ...

Many experts have warned that the foot-and-mouth disease is out of control in South Africa and that it poses an existential ...

Octavia Avesca Spandiel spoke to Wayne Porter, president of the Brahman Breeders’ Society of South Africa, about the history ...

As an African, the ongoing debates surrounding the production of livestock and its role in climate change are deeply personal. Across the globe, the prevailing narrative is that reducing livestock ...

JOHANNESBURG/VRYHEID, South Africa, July 29 (Reuters) - Cattle have long been considered a measure of wealth across Africa - but it is not just farmers cashing in. A pioneering app in South Africa ...

A world-first genetic study of cattle in Africa has revealed clues which could help secure the future of meat and dairy production on the continent. Scientists in England and East Africa carried out ...

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The African continent emits the lowest volume of greenhouse gases, yet we bear the brunt of the climate crisis, a crisis exacerbated by industrialised nations that have historically been the largest ...