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Augere
Insights · News · Books · African agriculture · Since 2026
From the Latin augere — to grow, to enlarge, to augment. Augere collects the firm's three publication streams: long-form Insights on trade, compliance, and research; short News & Dispatches from the working week; and the practitioner reference Books written by the team for African exporters, cooperatives, and DFI programmes.
Stream 01
The Economic Partnership Agreement is not symmetric. Here is what the asymmetry looks like at MRL, rules-of-origin, and seasonal-window level.
Read the piece →Most cooperative audit failures happen at the plant-protection control points, not at the documentation interface. A 30-day, six-step preparation method.
Read the piece →Drawn from the firm's applied research programme on smallholder trust mechanisms. The institutional plumbing that makes traceability actually work.
Read the piece →Stream 02
12 June 2026
The European Commission's pesticide residue database has confirmed scheduled reductions affecting three active ingredients widely used in South African citrus integrated pest management. Producers exporting into the EU through the June–October window should run an active-ingredient substitution review now, not in season. The Trade & Export Advisory desk is taking enquiries.
5 June 2026
Auctus Agri's Training & Compliance line is opening a Q3 2026 cohort for SADC-region smallholder vegetable cooperatives preparing for Option 2 group certification. Six-step preparation method, structured around the plant-protection and worker health & safety control points. Two cohort places remain. Enquire via the Contact page.
28 May 2026
The firm has formalised a dedicated service line covering farm and agribusiness analytics (Power BI dashboards, KPI design), farm automation, IoT sensor networks, and SOP-led on-farm field trials. The new line draws on existing in-house plant breeding capability and the firm's advanced data-science discipline.
22 May 2026
This week's farm visits across two multi-block citrus operations confirmed a pattern we have flagged previously: the cold-treatment scheduling decision and the MRL active-ingredient substitution decision are being managed by different people inside the same operation, with no formal handoff. One owner of both decisions is a near-costless management adjustment that most operations would benefit from.
17 May 2026
The South African challenge to the EU's False Codling Moth-related measures, lodged at the WTO in 2022, remains unresolved at the time of writing. South African orange exporters should continue to treat the cold-treatment compliance cost as a near-permanent feature of the EU export programme. The dispute timeline is not the planning horizon.
15 May 2026
J MAMBO CORPORATION (Pty) Ltd — the corporate home of the agribusiness practice active as Professional Agricultural Services since 2008 — has launched its market-facing brand, Auctus Agri. The legal entity, registrations, banking, and contracting framework are unchanged. The new home is at auctusagri.com.
Stream 03
Published under the firm's Global Business & Trade Law Series. A working handbook translating the EU–SADC EPA, UK DCTS, AfCFTA, and destination-market SPS regimes into operational guidance producers and exporters can act on. Draws directly on the firm's in-house applied research programme on preference underutilisation and eighteen years of in-country compliance advisory.
Buy on Amazon ↗A field-tested reference on export compliance workflows for African agricultural producers and cooperatives — from HS classification and rules-of-origin work through phytosanitary documentation, MRL surveillance, and buyer-spec translation. Structured for daily reference at the packhouse and the QM office, not as a shelf ornament.
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