Food Security

BONDOLFI MISSION - Five children have died in Zimbabwe’s southern drought-prone Masvingo province from severe malnutrition-related illnesses, according to members of a faith-based mission.

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By Finance Minister Trevor Manuel

While food prices have been stable or have fallen in relation to our incomes for much of the past thirty years, the past two years have indicated clearly that the era of cheap food is over. Rising food prices place a severe burden on the poor and government must intervene to support the needy in facing higher food prices.

However, higher food prices also provide an opportunity to profit from producing more food for our people.
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BULAWAYO, 5 August 2008 (IRIN) - Political violence, routine power cuts and fertiliser shortages are all but putting paid to any chance of Zimbabwe harvesting a winter wheat crop that will ease its chronic food shortages.

Once the bread basket of southern Africa, Zimbabwe has become dependent on donor food in a few short years. A recent UN report estimates that by early 2009 more than 5 million of Zimbabwe's estimated 12 million people will require food assistance, with the winter ...

Johannesburg - South Africans in the suburbs, townships and rural areas should all start producing their own food.

This was the overwhelming message from the Agriculture, Conservation and Environmental Affairs MEC in Gauteng, Khabisi Mosunkutu and the national Agriculture and Land Affairs Minister, Lulu Xingwana.

The two government leaders were speaking at the opening of a two-day Food Summit held in Midrand to help coordinate a comprehensive response to the mounting ...

By Nthambeleni Gabara

Johannesburg -The two-day food summit taking place at Gallagher Estate in Midrand will enable the Gauteng Department of Agriculture to formulate a position on the pricing of food.

Speaking to BuaNews, departmental spokesperson Sizwe Matshikiza said the drivers behind surging food prices, such as the basic commodity prices more than doubling, were tricky to deal with as they were interlinked.

Gauteng Agriculture MEC Khabisi Mosunkuntu will ...