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By 2025 nearly half of South Africa’s population will be food insecure, with 48.96% of the population potentially not having enough to eat.

South Africa’s draft strategy to combat food losses and waste proposes interventions such as prevention, education, partnerships, regulation and monitoring.

Food goes to waste at every stage in the food manufacturing and distribution process – from farming and production to packaging, storage, distribution, retail and finally, once it reaches consumers.

As we all mark World Hunger Day later this month, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the global hunger crisis and finding sustainable solutions, Woolworths is proud to announce a [...]

Nutrition programmes have been supporting families in Africa for decades. But many of these programmes have inconclusive results.

Everyone is vulnerable in some way, whether it’s to natural disasters, chronic diseases or hunger. But some are more at risk than others because of what they are exposed to socially, economically [...]

More millions out of work means more poverty, more hunger and more malnutrition. The government must act urgently to ensure food security for all as winter approaches.

When South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the nation on July 12 amid violence and destruction of property in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, he warned of several [...]

Aside from the comforting prospect that government is held to account in closed sessions where it must answer for budget spend and progress, the Parliamentary Monitoring Group's meetings are a [...]

The lockdown measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic make excessive demands on security forces and yet the government has not availed itself of the support offered by organised agriculture in [...]