“I’ve learned to be more assertive and that I really need to stick to my goals.”
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-07-26 In Blog The story of Renshia Manuel , owner of Growbox Nursery, in her own words. I grew up in Eerste River and, after high school, I studied motor mechanics for two years. (My mom was a single working parent and her car wasn’t very reliable so I thought this would a great […]
Paying attention to agro-processing
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-07-11 In Blog For those who might have missed it, the Department of Trade and Industry’s 2018/19-2020/21 Industrial Action Policy Programme (IPAP) were announced at the end of last month. Some of the IPAP interventions have been met with remarkable success. In the leather and footwear sub-sector, for example, exports of leather and footwear […]
Livestock: how to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-07-06 In Blog Allan Savory, thinking out-of-the-box, promotes livestock as the answer to desertification and climate change. “There is only one option left to climatologists and scientists, and that is to do the unthinkable: to use livestock, bunched and moving, as a proxy for former herds and predators, and to mimic nature”. It […]