We need to evaluate South Africa ’s economic policy through the lens of food affordability – Agri SA
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Discussions of food security often revolve around the availability of food supply.
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Discussions of food security often revolve around the availability of food supply.
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Prof. Ferdi Meyer, Prof. Nick Vink, Dr. Tracy Davids and Dr. Hester Vermeulen recently published a paper on the food price dynamics in Africa. The paper sets out to identify and discuss the main drivers of food inflation in Africa, with a view to analysing the impact of shocks, specifically the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine.
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The progress with South Africa’s land reform programme has not been properly monitored. This has resulted in an incorrect understanding of the real progress made to correct the racial distribution of farm land ownership in South Africa.
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National Treasury is reportedly proposing a host of extreme measures to get national departments and other spheres of government to cut spending as the country’s coffers have run dry.
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In a working democracy with checks and balances, budgets and approval processes, oversight and transparency, and consequences for breaking the law, it is relatively hard to steal.
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With South Africa hosting the 15th Brics summit this week, the bloc’s supposed benefits for the country’s agricultural sector have not materialised, according to experts.
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