Tag: pandemic

Stringent Covid-19 restrictions have seen the world's poorest, including smallholder farmers, bear the brunt without enough support of local governments.

Wandile Sihlobo undoubtedly looks dapper in a suit when he’s rubbing shoulders with the likes of pres. Cyril Ramaphosa and minister Thoko Didiza. However, he has certainly not forgotten how ...

While South Africa’s top coronavirus adviser expects the number of covid-19 infections in the country to exceed a million, scientists are also keeping a close eye on a strain of ...

The National Development Plan (NDP) targets the creation of one million jobs by 2033 and AgriSETA intends to be a cog in the wheel of progress, says Zenzele Myeza, chief ...

The covid-19 pandemic has amplified the urgent need to address bottlenecks in the smallholder farming communities and cultivate the vast amounts of underutilised land across the country. This warning by ...

Sometimes a sneeze is just a sneeze, warns paediatric psychologist Dr Dane Channon in the latest episode of “Thandi and Captain Stay Safe”, Food For Mzansi’s new covid-19 podcast to ...

Food For Mzansi today lifts the veil on “Thandi and Captain Stay Safe”, a special covid-19 podcast series to help children and their parents deal with uncertainty during the long-drawn-out ...

While milk producers across Mzansi continue to commit 1% of their daily production to the vulnerable, two Western Cape agricultural research farms have now also donated thousands of litres of ...

Experts in the agricultural sector are confident that the introduction of level 3 lockdown restrictions will bring relief to the food supply chain, which has experienced significant disruptions over the ...

In a crisis, the urgency of need must trump market barriers. Now more than ever businesses must come together and act to save the vulnerable among us.  Covid-19 has split ...