Trees — they’re the new grapes. Well, perhaps not quite but where Vergelegen, the 300-year-old Somerset West wine farm is concerned, they’re certainly a growing prospect.

While it is inevitable that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technology, such as robots and the Internet of Things (IoT), will remain key drivers in 2022, the most likely impact on agriculture will come from climate change, mitigating its impact and ensuring that the sector prevails from hurdles that come what may.

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There are plenty of statistics around the issue of the drought – this is more of a personal perspective.

This does have an economic impact.

South Africa saw at least 10.3 million tonnes of food and beverages going to waste this year, despite increasing levels of food insecurity and extreme poverty.

There is a deadly disease inflicting untold misery and hardship on the citizens of the Western Cape, but it isn't Covid – global overreaction, institutional incompetence and coronavirus myopia are the real villains behind this debacle.