Limpopo farmers are feeling powerless as the minerals department greedily consumes agricultural land and with it, the water supply.
For society’s sake, we can’t ignore food crises, politics and greedy white-controlled corporates.
The goal must be a uniquely African green revolution that successfully adapts global experiences to local conditions.
Kofi Annan sets out nine points to solve the problem. The role of smallholder farmers, who make up the majority of farmers, is crucial.
M&G newsroom is rife with discussion about the pros and cons of running and participating in the #6Rand campaign. Here are some views.
SA’s unemployment rate and the high cost of food mean many people go hungry. We look at how the R6 food challenge can raise awareness around this.
The M&G’s #6Rand challenge has elicited some varied reactions. Haji Mohamed Dawjee responds to some of the more, uh, interesting, misunderstandings.
We need to feed our country quality food so we can all realise our potential. That’s why we are running the R6-a-day challenge, writes Sipho Kings.
Around 14-million South Africans cannot afford enough food to feed their families. Join the M&G’s R6-a-day food challenge on Thursday, October 16.
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe faced farmers’ questions about land reform, food security, labour unrest and agricultural policy inconsistencies.
The Crop Estimates Committee’s forecast expects 2014’s maize harvest to be the largest in over three decades.
A study has revealed that increasing levels of carbon dioxide could adversely affect the nutrition levels in some of our most important food crops.
Anti-poverty groups condemn the first global trade deal since the creation of the World Trade Organisation.
First-world financial and technical skills with home-grown know-how can help in the fight to ensure food and water security in sub-Saharan Africa.
South Africa faces a structural household food insecurity problem, the prime causes of which are widespread chronic poverty and unemployment.
Part of the mandate of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is to improve nutrition and contribute to global economic growth.
On October 16 every year, the world observes World Food Day to look at ways of creating awareness about fighting hunger.
World Food Day marks the foundation of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1945 and heightens the plight of food insecurity.
The department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries affairs’s Female Entrepreneur Awards (FEA) programme started 13 years ago.
Armed with hoes and spades, women are taking the lead in the fight for food security and the eradication of poverty.
The government wants the country’s poorest communities to be able to produce food or fish for their own consumption.
The food being wasted yearly adds to the earth’s carbon emission and means that large amounts of land is used to grow food that is not consumed.
From the Conference of Berlin to today’s G8, "helping" Africans looks suspiciously like monopolising their resources, writes George Monbiot.
Malnutrition is killing South Africa’s children, yet half of the country’s fresh produce is wasted.
A major maize shortage has sent the price of maize meal spiralling in Zimbabwe, prompting traders to lobby government to consider importing GM maize.
A new approach that favours justice, equity and access is required
The UN has warned it is unable to deliver food to up to a million hungry and desperate Syrians because of spiralling violence and a lack of fuel.
World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the US or other food-exporting countries could trigger a hunger crisis next year.
According to a scientific study, Africa is capable of satisfying its wheat demand, relying less on imports, if it increased production of the crop.
Biofuel producers have taken over land around the world that could feed nearly one billion people, says international charity Oxfam.
Water scientists say mankind may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.
SA has been ranked 40th out of 105 countries in the Global Food Security Index, with the US on top and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the bottom.