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25 May 2020
Rhodes University
Two Rhodes University alumni have been recognised by the World Bank for their innovation in the agricultural sector.
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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).
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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:
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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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24 May 2020
IOL
Members of the African Farmers' Association of SA (Afasa) have lent a hand to impoverished communities.
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22 May 2020
The Rep
While Komani’s already struggling economy is brought nearer to its knees by the Covid19 lockdown regulations, humanitarian efforts are lifting the level of social cohesion, uniting previously divided civic activists who have committed themselves to the town’s revitalisation. Under Let’s Talk Komani (LTK), a non-profit umbrella body for civic organisations, a group of multi-cultural […]
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20 May 2020
Bedfordview and Edenvale News
Queues started forming from 4am and at times they stretched for about 3kms.
Food security read moreMinister of agriculture, land reform and rural development Thoko Didiza has slammed reports that the allocation of the disaster fund relief to mitigate the effects of the covid-19 crisis on small-scale farmers is racially and politically biased. In a statement released on Monday, agricultural...
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20 May 2020
Daily Maverick
The National Treasury has adopted a hard stance on the R22bn cash injection, saying it cannot expedite financial assistance to the Land Bank because public finances are under pressure due to Covid-19 health and economic interventions.
Food security read moreInflationary 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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