Food insecurity
'Cost of basic foods up nearly 13%, children in poor families wasting away'
Bruce Whitfield talks to Andy Du Plessis, MD of FoodForward SA, about the vicious cycle of food inflation and poverty in SA.
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Fight against child hunger a daily reality amid rising food prices – expert
According to Stats SA, in 2020, 10% of children lived in households that reported child hunger. Twenty-two percent of these children were from KwaZulu-Natal and 19% from Gauteng.
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This is why record wheat prices are a global worry
Consumed daily by billions of people around the world in bread and other flour-based products, wheat is a basic food staple, making current record prices for the cereal a global concern.
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Education vs Survival: SA’s youth struggle to stay in school
COVID-19 has not been kind to young South Africans as we see more of them dropping out of school. Eyewitness News spoke to some of them and spoke to experts to explain why this is happening. #SchoolDropout #Education
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Sri Lanka declares food emergency as forex crisis worsens
The economy shrank by a record 3.6 percent in 2020 because of the pandemic and in March last year the government banned imports of vehicles and other items, including edible oils and turmeric, an essential spice in local cooking, in a bid to save foreign exchange.
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Aquacraft & Siyakhana team up to help reduce food insecurity
According to Aquacraft, its alliance with Siyakhana makes sense because the NGO has various food garden outreach projects in Johannesburg, the Eastern Cape and the Northern Cape.
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'Nothing left': in crisis-hit Lebanon bread too is scarce
Lebanese flocked to bakeries before dawn on Friday, desperate to find affordable bread in a country where fuel and medicine are already in critically short supply.
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Rashford joins forces with supermarkets to fight child poverty
The England striker's campaign pressured the UK government into a U-turn in June to provide free school meal vouchers to pupils over the summer holidays.
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How Africa risks reeling from a health crisis to a food crisis
The situation in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is reflected across sub-Saharan Africa.
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Rural households staving off food insecurity with subsistence farming - study
Stats South Africa has found that three-quarters of households resort to growing their own food and it's not necessarily for trading purposes.
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Is there a 'circular' solution to the world's food problems?
Redesigning the food industry into a so-called “circular economy” model would reduce health costs, save land and water and create new business opportunities, says a report launched at the World Economic Forum.
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'37% of South African households can't afford adequate meals'
A University of Pretoria professor says at least 37% of SA households live below the poverty line.
