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AGRICULTURE

Crop data reaffirms South African agriculture’s recovery path

This could be good for consumers as prices drop.

  • Wandile Sihlobo
4 min read
The broad moderation in grain prices underscores improved global supplies in the 2023-24 season. Photo: Martin Schutt/dpa
UNITED NATIONS CEREALS PRICE INDEX

Global grain production good, but Southern Africa’s white maize crop hit by drought

South Africa imports all its rice and half its wheat so the exchange rate is a factor to watch

  • Wandile Sihlobo
3 min read
Annual consumer inflation was unchanged at 3.2% in February at 3.2%, with increases registered in housing and utilities, food and alcoholic beverages and restaurants and accommodation offset by decreases in the services sector, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. (Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
AGRICULTURE

What does the latest inflation data mean for your shopping cart?

We can now evaluate the harvest of 2023 This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail & Guardian is committed to providing all…

  • Wandile Sihlobo
1 min read
Informal traders, such as hawkers, street vendors and spaza shops are an important link in the chain that connects food producers to consumers. Photo: Supplied (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
CAPE TOWN

City planners, street vendors and spaza shops could help keep South Africans fed. Here’s how

Local governments back many projects where people can grow vegetables in urban areas, but researchers say that it’s not enough to curb hunger

  • Nicole Ludolph
8 min read
Annual consumer inflation was unchanged at 3.2% in February at 3.2%, with increases registered in housing and utilities, food and alcoholic beverages and restaurants and accommodation offset by decreases in the services sector, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. (Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BEEF

South African consumer food price inflation could average just above 6.0%

The outlook on food products prices will remain mixed, despite the recent broad increase in products prices.

  • Wandile Sihlobo
3 min read
The price of staple foods could more than double by 2030.
AGRICULTURE

Agricultural input costs remain elevated, squeezing farmers’ profits

Supply constraints in fertiliser-producing countries, coupled with rising shipping, oil and gas costs has pushed up the price of imported commodities such as fertiliser,…

  • Wandile Sihlobo
6 min read
Sandile Rasta Mthembu works in the garden at the Jewish Club site for homeless people where he and others are farming the land just off Durban’s Golden Mile. Picture: Rogan Ward
ALBERT PARK

A year into Covid, Durban’s beachfront farmers are still tilling the soil

Homeless pioneers persevere with a project that came to life during the first lockdown

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read
FOOD

More home-grown veg as British, US belts tighten

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.

  • Kate Kelland
5 min read