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Monsanto focuses on technologies, tools and information that empower farmers to feed people in the future
The worlds poorest - many of whom are farmers, fishers and pastoralists - are hit hardest by higher temperatures and an increasing frequency in weather-related disasters. "We will have to produce more food while using natural resources more efficiently if we want to continue providing food to all people across the globe. At Monsanto, we focus on and provide technologies, tools and information that empower the world's farmers to find solutions to the challenge of feeding 9 billion people expected to inhabit the earth by 2050,"
says Kobus Steenekamp, MD Monsanto SA. Read media release»
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Figures released this morning by Statistics South Africa show that headline inflation has accelerated to 6.1% year-on-year (y/y) in September 2016 from 5.9% y/y in the previous month, with rentals for housing and owners' equivalent rent being the key driver of this uptick. However, food and non-alcoholic beverages inflation has remained unchanged from the previous month, at 11.3% y/y. 
Will the South African agricultural sector manage to generate a million jobs by 2030, against the backdrop of a stubbornly high and persistent (youth) unemployment problem? Who will invest in agriculture? Which product markets are to be considered for investment? When and where will such investment take place, and how should it be done to more effectively contribute to broad-based agricultural growth? How can such growth be defined - is it related to output or the value of production, or both? Under what conditions can investment grow meaningfully? Tinashe Kapuya, Head International Trade and Investment Intelligence at Agbiz sheds more light on this in the 
