- 22 Mar 2013 00:00 - Lisa Steyn
- Some of this country's richest maize farmland is also home to some of our poorest people.
- 05 Mar 2013 13:12 - IRIN News
- A major maize shortage has sent the price of maize meal spiralling in Zimbabwe, prompting traders to lobby government to consider importing GM maize.
- 04 Sep 2012 15:36 - Sipho Kings
- With food prices already soaring around the world, the future looks bleak for SA, too, as the price of staple foods could more than double by 2030.
- 06 Jul 2012 12:32 - Guardian Reporter
- Adverse weather in other major grain-producing countries has speculators betting on costs rising.
- 25 Jun 2012 14:00 - Olivia Kumwenda
- SA maize and citrus farmers are setting their sights on Asia as they grapple with increasing competition in Africa and falling demand in Europe.
- 05 Dec 2011 14:57 - Nickolaus Bauer
- Agricultural bodies and government have discounted reports of pending doom due a shortage in South Africa's maize stocks.
- 11 Nov 2011 00:00 - Teigue Payne
- Consumers want their maize meal and flour to be white, even though this makes them less healthy.
- 10 Nov 2011 08:55 - Staff Reporter
- With the largest harvest of maize in three decades during the 2009/10 season, SA has potentially exported more maize than is available as surplus.
- 16 Aug 2011 07:19 - Staff Reporter
- Campaigners say plants being grown in US may worsen global food crisis, while farmers express cross-contamination fears.
- 03 Jun 2011 00:00 - Niren Tolsi
- The production of maize, a staple for millions of South Africans, is predicted to plummet by 35% by 2030.
- 30 Nov 2010 13:50 - Olivia Kumwenda
- SA's maize prices, which have largely been depressed this year, will remain under pressure in 2011 unless the country secures new export markets.
- 19 Mar 2009 11:24 - Staff Reporter
- A deal for Daewoo Logistics to lease over one million hectares of Madagascar to grow food crops is off, the island's new leader said on Wednesday.
- 21 Nov 2008 10:14 - Nicky Rehbock
- South Korea is hoping to turn an undeveloped stretch of Madagascar into a maize-production centre.
- 15 Jul 2008 06:00 - Lynley Donnelly
- "No farmers, no future." So says the bumper sticker on farmer Bully Botma's white bakkie, parked in Bothaville, South Africa's mealie capital.
- 06 Jul 2008 15:03 - Lucy Hornby
- Climate change could cut SA's maize crop by 20% as the west of the country dries out while the east is afflicted with increasingly severe storms.
