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11 August 2020
Zululand Observer
RBM is working with various traditional councils to identify vulnerable families
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04 August 2020
Farmer’s Weekly
COVID-19’s arrival in Africa has exacerbated pre-existing major challenges to the continent’s food production and nutrition security.
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04 August 2020
Daily Maverick
The harm done to microeconomic entities such as businesses and households is yet to be fully determined. We need to plan towards a growth path using the resources that will be available.
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04 August 2020
CNBC Africa
Download logoThe COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis threatening the food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world. Hundreds of millions of people were already suffering from hunger and malnutrition before the virus hit and, unless immediate action is taken, we could see a global food emergency. According to the general household survey of 2017 the North West Province has 1.7 million people food insecure. In the longer term, the combined effects of COVID
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31 July 2020
Engineering News
South Africa’s national Solidarity Fund has ramped up its efforts to bring relief to those most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The fund has been focusing its efforts since its inception in March on humanitarian efforts, as well as medical supplies, but food relief and gender-based violence (GBV) has shown to need more effort.
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30 July 2020
Pretoria East Rekord
"The toilets there are not properly maintained as there is sewage overflowing in the market daily. In addition, there are no proper security measures in place at the market."
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30 July 2020
Daily Maverick
The department is cutting its budget by R2.4bn. In so doing, it will forego work in areas of strategic importance. MPs have bemoaned this and demanded the department provide a rationale for adopting this counterintuitive approach. The MPs are correct given the significance of the programmes that will be affected by the proposed cuts.
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28 July 2020
BizCommunity
Despite four consecutive quarters of contraction and ongoing challenges due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, South Africa's agriculture sector rebounded by 27.8% quarter-on-quarter...
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27 July 2020
Bizcommunity
Agri SA is of the opinion that the department's salary bill should be cut instead of its programmes for food security, land reform, production aid, infrastructure development in the form of Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme and rural development...
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25 July 2020
News 24
A top level report given to the Western Cape government paints a dire picture of the impact of the lockdown on hunger and community kitchens.
Food security read moreIn one scene, migrants shouted ‘no camera’ at the reporting crew filming them from a larger chartered vessel. https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graphics/2020/08/12/cartoon-British-TV-media-migrant-boat-coverage?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Green revolution is locking African farmers into a system that is not designed for their benefit, but for Northern multinational corporations. https://theecologist.org/2020/aug/14/gates-failing-green-revolution-africa
Allegations of corrupt land deals in Okahandja. Resident calls for a probe by the Anti Corruption Commission https://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=93685&page=read
JOEVA ROCK & RACHEL SCHURMAN - Seeds of Neo-Colonialism: Why GMO's Create African Dependency on Global Markets | The Elephant https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2020/07/31/seeds-of-neo-colonialism-why-gmos-create-african-dependency-on-global-markets/#.XzZcQfjfzfs.twitter
Zim weighs using land as security for the $3.5bn bond meant to compensate white farmers https://www.news24.com/fin24/Economy/Africa/zim-weighs-using-land-as-security-for-the-35bn-bond-meant-to-compensate-white-farmers-20200813 via @fin24
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