Food security

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Women in Ruyterwacht help evicted and vulnerable

“This is a new South Africa, a South Africa for everybody, a South Africa of change, a South Africa to uplift our people. So what is happening here?”

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News | 23 September 2016

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Drought leaves women farmers open to exploitation

In Mozambique, women are caught between jealous absent husbands, money lenders and corrupt local chiefs

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News | 14 September 2016

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Making gardens in Khayelitsha’s sandy soil

Ekasi Green Project shares its vegetables and knowledge with the community

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News | 14 June 2016

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Bureaucratic budget leaves school kids hungry

Nutrition programme stretched at many schools classified as less poor

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News | 18 May 2016

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Award-winning Zimbabwean N7 farmers’ version of events disputed

Landowners give different account

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News | 11 May 2016

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Zimbabweans make thriving farm on abandoned land

Land-owner on N7 bet them that it was unprofitable

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News | 4 May 2016

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Bishop Lavis woman hands out food parcels to the needy

Residents queue from 6am

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News | 26 February 2016

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Cape Town’s bread basket under threat

City says no decision taken yet to develop a third of Philippi farming area

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News | 18 February 2016

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Vegetable gardens critical for school feeding schemes

Khayelitsha Schools benefit from having own food gardens

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News | 16 February 2016