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Nov 26, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Cole Potgieter |Aisling de Lange |Neil Stacey
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Elevating practitioners and ensuring social sustainability in the wine industry. Membership growth: Starting the year with just 40 members, we have grown to an impressive 391 members by November 2024, showcasing the strong interest and commitment within the industry. Successful Knowledge Donation Days: Our Knowledge Donation Days have been a resounding success, featuring vibrant discussions and demonstrations.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Cole Potgieter |Aisling de Lange |Neil Stacey
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The winners of the 2024 Diners Club Winemaker and Young Winemaker of the Year awards have been announced. Kiara Scott Farmer took home the Winemaker of the Year award, while Mika Engelbrecht was honoured as the Young Winemaker of the Year.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Cole Potgieter |Aisling de Lange |Neil Stacey |Paul Makube
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South African wine producers are optimistic about the 2025 harvest following a challenging 2024 season marked by extreme weather. Despite floods, frost, and strong winds, above-average winter rainfall and minimal frost damage in most regions have left producers hopeful, according to predictions from Vinpro and SAWIS.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | John Hudson |Joseph Ogutu |Cole Potgieter |Aisling de Lange
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South Africa’s agricultural sector, already vulnerable to drought, faces mounting challenges due to climate change. The prolonged El Niño cycle has led to lower rainfall and extended dry spells, resulting in a 22% drop in the 2023-24 maize harvest, according to the Crop Estimates Committee. Despite the decline, the surplus from the previous season is expected to mitigate immediate impacts.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Cole Potgieter |Aisling de Lange |Neil Stacey
South Africa's wine industry faces multifaceted threat from the climate crisis. South Africa's wine industry enjoys domestic and international acclaim. The country produced 934 million litres of wine in 2023, of which 306 million were exported, generating approximately R10-billion. The wine industry supports numerous jobs and extensive infrastructure. It has knock-on benefits for tourism, making it a source of pride and revenue for the country.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
news24.com | Cole Potgieter |Aisling de Lange |Neil Stacey
Climatechange with higher temperatures poses numerous challenges for the South Africanwine industry. Theseinclude earlier harvests, less predictability, more pests, and higher sugar andalcohol levels that change the flavour profiles of wines. The exportwine industry generated about R10 billion in 2023. For climate change news and analysis, go to News24 Climate Future. SouthAfrica's wine industry enjoys domestic and international acclaim.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Aisling de Lange
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The amount of plastic in petrels breeding at Inaccessible Island in the central South Atlantic Ocean has remained constant since the 1980s, a new study by researchers at the University of Cape Town’s FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology has revealed. The findings of their study were published in the Science of The Total Environment journal.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
ewn.co.za | Aisling de Lange
In 2020, Clover Milk released their new blue milk bottles, in an effort to differentiate themselves from other white milk cartons on supermarket shelves. But as those on social media at the time will remember, this marketing ploy prompted a negative response from the public, including the #BoycottTheBlueBottle campaign. This was motivated largely by the fact that blue plastic is much less valuable at recycling plants and is therefore less likely to be recycled at all.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
groundup.org.za | Aisling de Lange
In 2020 Clover Milk released their new blue milk bottles, in an effort to differentiate themselves from other white milk cartons on supermarket shelves. But as those on social media at the time will remember, this marketing ploy prompted a negative response from the public, including the #BoycottTheBlueBottle campaign. This was motivated largely by the fact that blue plastic is much less valuable at recycling plants and is therefore less likely to be recycled at all.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Joseph Ogutu |Cole Potgieter |Aisling de Lange |Neil Stacey
The Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which includes Kenya’s Maasai Mara and Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park, is one of the most famous and wildlife-rich areas in Africa. Image source: Balazs Simon from PexelsEvery year, millions of animals move across the land in search of fresh grass and water, creating an incredible spectacle known as the Great Migration. This migration sustains hundreds of predators and scavengers like vultures.
