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05 March 2019
Farmer's Weekly
Solidaridad Network Trust, an international organisation working towards achieving sustainable regional production of agricultural commodities, has announced that it would be expanding its programme for smallholder sugar cane producers to other countries in Southern Africa.
Rural development read more“Seedlings sales took a knock when farmers stopped buying in response to their markets drying up during the hard lockdown, despite this a counter trend increased seedlings sales at local households...”-Philani Ngcobo, a small-scale farmer from Ndwedwe,
https://afra.co.za/2021/02/25/impact-of-covid-19-lockdown-on-small-scale-farmer-and-agro-processor-philani-ngcobo/
What is tragic is that communities receive land they were violently removed from by the racist regime, but the land is transferred into entities that are structured in a way that almost guarantees failure.
Government can and must do so much better for land claimants. https://twitter.com/richard_spoor/status/1364886230790508547
Looking at the books of a large restitution trust. It owes SARS R125 million and can’t pay. Between them, all the entities that own restituted land likely owe SARS, Eskom, water boards and local municipalities several billion rand.
Sustainability is not a big thing in the DRDLR.
EU launches Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency https://europa.eu/!tw39Nf via @EU_Commission
The pandemic led to governments across the world imposing a myriad of barriers on their citizens to control the spread of C-19 within their borders. Ghana was no exception. This article explains how Ghana's food system was affected.
#AfricanFoodSystems
https://www.plaas.org.za/the-ravages-of-covid-19-measures-in-ghana/
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