Western Cape launches e-booklets to fast-track climate change resilience in agriculture

31st March 2021

By: Yvonne Silaule

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The Western Cape provincial government has launched e-booklets that will help to fast-track climate change resilience in agriculture.

The e-booklet on climate change entitled The Mercury Rises is based on the popular award-winning radio series Die Kwik Styg. The e-booklets are available in the three official languages of the Western Cape – English, Afrikaans and IsiXhosa.

Speaking at the launch, Western Cape Agriculture Minister Dr Ivan Meyer highlighted that climate change was one of his Ministerial priorities and that the publication of the e-booklets provided "another platform to advance a climate-resilient future for the sector”.

“We must take the lead in ensuring that the agriculture sector becomes a low-carbon, climate change-resilient sector by advocating climate-smart production practices,” he said.

The e-booklets cover 14 topics selected from the 104 radio programmes broadcast on radio station RSG from 2018 to 2020. The series was the first-ever programme on climate change to be broadcast on radio in South Africa.

RSG has also recently announced plans to re-broadcast the series from April as a result of the its popularity and important content.

Embedded radio technology allows the reader to listen to the original radio programme while reading the booklet.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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