What we learned from two days at Silver Lakes: the evidence, the ideas and the people working to make South Africa’s red meat value chain more competitive, resilient and inclusive.
Government, producers, industry bodies, researchers, financiers, technology partners and animal-health specialists came together to test one question: what will it take to make the red meat value chain deliver? These articles bring together the outcomes and knowledge shared across the sessions, each credited to the speakers whose presentations and insights it draws on.
Foot-and-mouth disease has exposed what happens when command, surveillance and movement control fail. Speakers at the Agri X Fusion Red Meat Value Chain Collaboration Summit set out what it will take to fix the system.
South Africa is a top-30 agricultural exporter, yet the red meat industry isn’t supplying enough export beef. Here is what the Agri X Fusion Red Meat Value Chain Collaboration Summit said needs to change.
A sustainability issue today can become a credit risk tomorrow. Bankers, economists and animal-health specialists explained how the red meat chain can become investable.
South Africa doesn’t lack research or capital. What’s missing is the bridge between them. Panel 4 and the Day 2 presenters at the Agri X Fusion Red Meat Value Chain Collaboration Summit explained how to build it.
Different farms face shared challenges. Technology partners at the Agri X Fusion Red Meat Value Chain Collaboration Summit showed how connectivity, IoT and data fusion turn those challenges into decisions.
The plans largely exist. The summit’s strongest message was about connecting the pieces and delivering together.
What carbon credits are, why the market exists, how a farm earns them, and what to check before you sign. Based on Michael Lilje’s session at the Agri X Fusion Red Meat Value Chain Collaboration Summit.
From vaccines and genetics to cultivars and data, agricultural innovation runs on intellectual property. Here’s how IP works in South African agriculture, and how industry can partner with universities and research councils without getting stuck.
Land creates the opportunity. Knowledge, infrastructure and coordinated support turn it into a viable farming business. Here’s how a readiness test, a living farmer profile and measured follow-through can make land reform work for livestock farmers.
