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How to feed thousands

Opinion Alison Misselhorn - 12 Sep 2020

During lockdown, a powerful civil society network stepped up to the plate and managed to feed hundreds of thousands. People kept asking how this was done...

Open schools mean full tummies as feeding schemes resume

Coronavirus Pontsho Pilane - 30 Aug 2020

About four in five learners in the country’s poorest schools rely on the one meal they receive at school, but they weren’t able to get it for more than four months, during which child hunger increased because of the pandemic

Three million jobs lost and hunger surging amid Covid-19 crisis — survey

Coronavirus Sarah Smit - 15 Jul 2020

Income shocks and the breakdowns in social protection schemes have had consequences for hunger and food insecurity in South Africa

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Preventing Covid-19 from becoming a hunger crisis in Africa

Africa Mimi Alemayehou - 2 Jul 2020

The warning signs couldn’t be clearer that we need to act now to prevent millions dying from starvation

Three months in, Covid-19 poses triple threats in Africa

Africa Edwin Ikhuoria - 18 May 2020

Health, debt and hunger are huge threats to the continent’s stability

Cartoon: Carlos on the wolves at the door

Cartoons Carlos - 8 May 2020

Knock, knock: it's Hunger

Hunger is as big a threat as Covid

Analysis The Pietermaritzburg Pensioners Forum - 23 Apr 2020

For the many that rely on pension grants, Sassa’s seemingly simple date change has severe ramifications

SA lockdown: Coercing the poor, coddling the rich?

Article Seán Muller - 20 Apr 2020

The Ramaphosa Presidency has been praised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the compensating measures that accompany it are inadequate to protect much of the population

South Africa’s invisible majority: Women feeding hungry families

Article Julie Smith & Tracy Ledger - 15 Apr 2020

Sit up, take notice and get angry that a third of South African households have R120 or less a person a week for food, let alone nutritious food

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With no nutritional reserves, Covid-19 will push people over the edge

Article Kopano Matlwa Mabaso - 15 Apr 2020

With South Africa under lockdown, many South Africans are hungry — and very soon persistent hunger will dramatically increase malnutrition

Eusebius McKaiser: Certain views about Covid-19’s global trajectory are anti-poor and anti-human

Analysis Eusebius McKaiser - 17 Mar 2020

This is no time to snigger at the high rates of coronavirus in the Global North. We could be just as hard hit — and it is poor people who will suffer the most

Garden feeds hundreds in inner city Jo’burg

Article Jacques Coetzee 1 - 29 Oct 2019

Hunger is widespread in SA and malnutrition affects children’s growth. Refiloe Molefe is doing her bit to change this with her food bank project

More than you can chew

Article Cayleigh Bright - 18 Oct 2019

Food inequality is a complex issue – to achieve food security, we need complex interventions from various sectors of society

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The farm workers who produce our food are the most vulnerable to hunger

Article Stephen Devereux, Ruth Hall & Colette Solomon - 8 Oct 2019

When drafting policies to address this situation, it is important that the voices of the workers themselves are taken into account

Feed the hunger disaster

Article Eugene Absolom - 7 Jun 2019

As for a tsunami or any other calamity, corporates and individuals must dig into their pockets

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