Food security

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Khayelitsha soup kitchen feeds dozens of people weekly

“People are hungry out there” says founder

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News | 7 February 2017

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“Locals are in love with spinach” says gardener

Zimbabwean widow grows hard to access fresh vegetables in PE

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News | 20 December 2016

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Vegetable garden faces chop for being too ‘untidy’

"Not in our backyard," say library staff

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News | 25 October 2016

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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

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Drought bites into the budgets of the poor

Consumers report rising prices of staple foods

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News | 26 January 2016

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Concerns that drought and weak currency will push up food prices

The skyrocketing price of both white and yellow maize during 2015 as well as estimates of only half of the usual crop sizes being planted for the 2016 season raise concerns for food price inflation.

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Analysis | 13 January 2016