Food security
Record hunger in the Philippines as COVID restrictions bite
Charities are struggling to meet the ever-growing demand for food as millions of families go hungry across the country.
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Local NGO distributes 7.6 million meals to hungry children amid lockdown
The Social Development Department says 14 million people in South Africa were already food insecure before COVID-19.
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Cabinet: Farm attacks pose a threat to SA’s food security
There has been a raging debate over the fate of South African farmers following invasions and killings across the country.
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UN warns of alarming rise of hunger in war-torn Yemen
Economic shocks, conflict, floods, desert locusts and now the novel coronavirus were creating a perfect storm for the expected sharp rise in food insecurity, according to a report by several UN agencies.
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Once-booming Franschhoek is on its knees: 'People are not eating!'
Waiters, chefs and restaurant owners in Franschhoek and elsewhere are protesting under the banner #JobsSaveLives.
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Horn of Africa to face unprecedented threat to food security, warns UN agency
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN said the region had five million children under the age of five who were acutely malnourished.
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ANALYSIS: Are the Gauteng govt's emergency food parcels enough for a month?
Africa Check takes a look at what is in the food parcels from the Gauteng government and whether it’s “enough” for a family of four for one month?
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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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SA will not run out of food during lockdown - Didiza
Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza appealed to the public to not panic as the country has sufficient food supplies.
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Record 45m people need urgent food aid in southern Africa : UN
'This hunger crisis is on a scale we’ve not seen before and the evidence shows it’s going to get worse,' World Food Programme (WFP) regional director Lola Castro said in a statement.
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SA most food-secure country in Africa - Global Food Security Index
Today is World Food Day, which puts the spotlight on access, affordability and the nutritional value of food systems.
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FAO warns food supply threatened by declining biodiversity
Biodiversity enables agriculture systems to be more resilient to shocks such as disease and pest outbreaks, as well as coping with climate change.
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[LISTEN] 'No child should go to bed hungry'
David Beasley, executive director of the UN World Food Programme, says Southern Africa has a lack of proper diet and this is not because of a lack of food but it’s more about lack of diverse diet.
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UN: Food security in Middle East, North Africa deteriorating
In those hardest hit by crises - Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya and Sudan - an average of more than a quarter of the population was undernourished.
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4 mega-trends that could change the world by 2030
The 'Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds' is full of both grim predictions and hopeful insights about the world that humans will inhabit within the next two decades.
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[OPINION] Africa’s plan for a Great Green Wall needs a rethink
What many perceived as a plan to build an almost 8,000km long wall of trees all across Africa has faced a lot of criticism.
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Senzeni Zokwana points out the importance of food security
Zokwana says the ANC appreciates the role played by commercial farmers in making sure the country has enough food.
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4 countries face famine threat as global food crisis deepens
The Food Security Information Network says that in 2017 widespread food insecurity is likely to persist in Iraq, Syria, Malawi and Zimbabwe,
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[ANALYSIS] Fall armyworm and the SADC
Jean-Jacques Cornish unpacks the threat of the fall armyworm invasion to Southern Africa.
