Guest: Wandile Sihlobo, Chief economist at the Agricultural Business Chamber of SA and author of ‘A Country of Two Agricultures’

About a month ago, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state veterinary and public health officials released a report stating that they are studying an illness among dairy cows in various states. This report came after the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (bird flu), which commonly affects poultry farms, was discovered in dairy cows and the subsequent infection of a dairy farm employee, our guest this evening wrote an article unpacking the impact on this on a global scale…