If you own a tractor and are willing to rent it out to local farmers, you have the potential to significantly increase your annual income from this endeavor. However, expanding your customer base to include more farmers and growing your annual...
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Since the dawn of agriculture, the way we grow our crops has begun by planting a seed in soil. Starting with an originally simple method, over time, we have managed to innovate and improve. Growing methods have been altered, tools to make our lives...
Imagine if your income and financial security could be eaten by lions. Not the metaphorical lions of unexpected bills and taxes, but actual creatures that can kill and be killed. Richard Turere in a Kenyan Maasai cattle herder. His life and the...
Imagine standing in a desert and declaring that you can turn the sunlight into water. The image might seem like the claims of a fantastical prophet or magician, but as ever, science is performing its dead-ringer impersonation of magic yet again...
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault was created as a safe-guard for humanity. Often dubbed the ‘doomsday’ vault, the facility was constructed deep in the ice of the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, as a last chance for our survival in the event of...
“Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.”
– William Jennings Bryan
If you haven’t heard of the Svalbard archipelago, a small island group halfway between Norway and the North Pole, you’re in good company – aside from the tiny civilian population of Longyearbyen who call Svalbard home, few know of this remote part...
As far as careers go, farming won’t be at the top of the list. Unless you are born into the industry, you don’t have an affinity with farming. The thought of getting up at four o’clock in the morning to stand in manure isn’t a very welcoming one...
Retailing into the farming industry is more than just meeting the items on a shopping list. Beyond all other industries, agriculture accounts for almost a quarter (23%) of formal employment in Zimbabwe and is one of the most important sectors in the...
