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Onderstepoort Biological Products confirmed that it had for some time been unable to produce sufficient vaccines.
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15 May 2023
ENCA
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister, Thoko Didiza has announced an Agro-Energy Fund to the tune of R2,5-billion.
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11 May 2023
Daily Maverick
The burden of hunger in Touws River is heavy, as a recent ‘learning journey’ revealed. Understanding how the local food systems work is crucial to stemming further socioeconomic breakdown in this and other small rural towns.
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08 May 2023
Daily Maverick
We’ve enjoyed three years of plentiful rains and bumper grain harvests, thanks to a La Niña in the Pacific. But that’s all likely to change soon, with unhappy consequences for local food prices.
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18 April 2023
The Conversation
The relationship between small-scale irrigation and food security, diet quality, and nutrition is growing.
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23 April 2023
Daily Maverick
Food inflation remains on a worrying upward trajectory, with SA and UK food inflation running at about double the rate of their headline inflation rates. That’s completely at odds with the steady decline in global food prices since March last year. We look into what could be contributing to this fundamental disconnect.
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21 April 2023
GroundUp
But solutions are not at all simple
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20 February 2023
Daily Maverick
Blackouts’ disruption of agriculture is fuelling the fire of food inflation, as the president admitted in his Sona speech. Now sources say the National Budget will give farms incentives to generate their own power.
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13 February 2023
Daily Maverick
Globally, the overuse and misuse of drugs – especially antibiotics – in the food chain and in the pollution from livestock farming (spills of manure and other waste into soil and waterways), is a major contributor to the rapid rise of superbugs. How big a problem is antibiotic use in animal farming in South Africa?
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01 February 2023
GroundUp
Many fishers will be left stranded for months while waiting
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