Investing in climate resilience will be key to improving prospects for drought-prone farming sector

With several weather institutions expressing cautious optimism that South Africa could receive normal, or even above-normal, rainfall towards mid-summer – that is between December and January – there is a degree of optimism that the embattled local agriculture sector could rebound in 2017. In fact, a number of agricultural agencies and economists are forecasting a recovery in farming production, specifically maize, which has been severely affected by the worst drought in decades and ...