Cosatu says it was shocked to hear about another ”collusion scandal” in the food industry — this time among chicken companies.
Patrick Phiri describes his five-hour wait in line for a bag of mealie-meal in Harare.
Food prices are expected to rise rapidly in the next year because farmers are planting less as input costs escalate.
There’s a Somali on your stoep. Of course, it’s insane to set up refugee camps across the road from nice, middle-class suburbs.
The world food crisis is a tragedy frequently and passionately foretold. For years food experts warned that chronic under-investment in agriculture in developing countries, by governments and donors alike, would one day spell disaster.
Thomas Malthus, the 18th-century cleric, must be chuckling in his grave. His grim prediction that humanity faced a future of rising food prices and mounting malnutrition has finally arrived.
In the richest nation on Earth, a rising number of people line up for free food because they are struggling to put meals on the table at home.
Almost 70 years after Britons were urged to Dig For Victory to produce hearty home-grown food to help the war effort, domestic horticulture is coming back.
A United Nations global food crisis summit risked embarrassing failure to reach any formal agreement on combating hunger threatening a billion people worldwide.
The rising cost of food is a time bomb that could result in uprisings, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum on Africa on Thursday.
World leaders will seek on Thursday to agree an action plan to tackle the global food crisis after three days of wrangling.
The international Red Cross said on Wednesday it plans to distribute food and relief aid to half-a-million Somalis in the coming weeks amid warnings the country faces its worst crisis for a decade.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday that failure was not an option in addressing the global food price crisis, and said an extra -billion to -billion per year would be needed to help avoid disaster.