The insects responsible for pollinating cacao’s tiny flowers are, themselves, also tiny, in order to access the flower’s reproductive structures. Biting midges from the Ceratopogonidae family and gall ...

Governments, industry and those funding research, innovation and consumer marketing must actively move away from a maize ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Plant Health Bill into law, introducing measures to combat plant pests that threaten domestic agriculture and could affect South Africa's ability to export ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Collard greens are part of the South's culinary traditions, especially in Black households. Now, a researcher is studying how differences in the leafy vegetable determine its taste and hardiness.

Even botanists can be surprised at the sheer variety of a houseplant often known only for being indestructible.

Rising temperatures and shifting rainfall patterns in West Africa, which supplies around 70% of the world's cacao, are ...

Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets ...

A law that allows the government to confiscate land has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa's southernmost tip ...

Here are seven medicinal plant species that have proved their worth in gold and may well have more to give to the future of ...