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Vulnerable households are struggling to put food on the table as the government lockdown puts their livelihoods on hold. Vouchers and food parcels help, but are they enough to prevent malnutrition?
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There were also a lack of toilets and maintenance in Cape Town, Johannesburg and eThekwini.
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“Our electricity boxes trip and only start to work the following day” says RDP homeowner in Mfuleni
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Download logoAfrican countries need to urgently expand food reserves, keep food supply flowing and boost their agriculture budgets to avert a possible hunger pandemic, partly caused by the COVID-19...
25 May 2020
Rhodes University
Two Rhodes University alumni have been recognised by the World Bank for their innovation in the agricultural sector.
Food security
26 May 2020
AllAfrica
The agricultural project "AGROLIVE" is investing 100 million Kwanzas (Akz) in mechanization and promotion of maize and bean crops in the municipality of Lépi, Longonjo (Huambo).
Africa Land News
25 May 2020
Daily Maverick
‘There’s nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come,’ said Victor Hugo. This quote helps us understand the growing calls from all spheres of society worldwide for the introduction of a universal basic income (also known as a basic income grant).
Food security
22 May 2020
IOL
A group of occupants at 414 Arcadia House in Main Road, Observatory, have celebrated victory after the Western Cape High Court interdicted the City from evicting them.
Urban land
25 May 2020
IOL
The government’s policies have always been biased towards large-scale commercial agriculture, at the expense of small-scale producers and rural communities, says the writer:
Food security
25 May 2020
IOL
Group claimed they were woken up by soldiers and Ekurhuleni municipal officials who entered rooms and claimed they had court order to relocate them
Urban land
25 May 2020
Times Live
eCommerce options for liquor outlets including taverns are under discussion by the SA liquor industry as it seeks to prevent overcrowding when the ban on booze is lifted from next Monday.
Farm workers
22 May 2020
Notes from the house
Housing policy has tended to stand apart from economic objectives and disciplines, sometimes by design and sometimes by default. As a result, it has o...
Urban land
24 May 2020
Sunday Times
It is becoming clear the Solidarity Fund's food parcel distribution programme is no longer sustainable, with a feeding strategy rethink needed as growing queues of hungry people become increasingly at risk to Covid-19 exposure.
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Inflationary pressures and droughts affecting livestock farmers in Midlands @ZiLAN2015 https://www.chronicle.co.zw/farmers-trim-livestock-head-amid-dwingling-pastures/
https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2020/cracks-in-the-global-food-system-more-apparent-with-covid-19/
(JUST IN) The National Assembly's Programme Committee resolves to suspend the process to amend section 25 of the constitution to give effect to land expropriation without compensation pending certainty on #Covid_19SA regulations that can allow public participation. #sabcnews
There have been billions disbursed to assist with the tough times #COVID19 has exacerbated in SA. Where have they gone? There has been corruption reported on the dissemination of food parcels and selling of essential worker/travel permits.
This is a matter of transparency. https://twitter.com/LRC_SouthAfrica/status/1265586415624245248
Dr Thula Sizwe Dlamini and Watson Vuyo Matsa are co-founders of eSusFarm Africa. eSusFarm® is an agri-fintech that specialises in tracking and providing advanced agricultural statistical data to smallholder farmers and the entire agri-value chain. https://www.ru.ac.za/latestnews/rhodesuniversityalumnigetworldbanktopinnovationaward.html
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