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Anne-Marie Urukundo, the African Communities Coordinator for Outgrowing Hunger, clears brush and tills land at a garden project for African refugee growers in May 2023. On a warm May morning, in a big ...
The news last week that the estimate of the 2015 maize crop in South Africa has been reduced to 9,6 million tonnes came on ...
“The future of the region depends first and foremost on producing what we eat,” says Ollo Sib, World Food Programme (WFP) analyst for West and Central Africa. Sib is talking about food security across ...
Surging maize prices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Tanzania, and South Sudan have created a lucrative trade for people to smuggle staple food out of Zambia. For instance, 50kg of ...
A recent study offers a promising strategy to protect food security and safety of maize in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 300 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) depend on maize for nearly 30% of ...
Dryer and hotter-than-usual weather across South Africa’s main summer crop growing regions is hurting the outlook for the key corn harvest and raising risks for higher food-price inflation, according ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Elevated prices for the staple food maize are putting pressure on cash-strapped South African consumers still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic and fanning food price ...