South Africa: One Million Vaccine Doses En Route As Foot-and-Mouth Disease Fight Intensifies

As foot-and-mouth disease devastates South Africa's livestock sector, one million vaccines are set to arrive, offering a glimmer of hope for struggling farmers. Read more »

South Africa: Rising Food Prices Leave Low-Income Families Struggling to Meet Basic Nutritional Needs

Basic food prices continue to rise, pushing essential items beyond the reach of those relying on the R370 Social Relief of Distress grant. Read more »

South Africa: Is Sugar Tax a Crucial Public Health Tool or an Industry Scapegoat?

SA Canegrowers seeks to abolish South Africa's sugar tax, blaming it and cheap imports for industry job losses. However, health advocates argue the levy is vital for reducing… Read more »

South Africa: Farmers Take Foot-and-Mouth Disease Fight to Steenhuisen As Vaccine Battle Escalates

Frustrated farmers are calling for the state to urgently allow foot-and-mouth disease vaccines to be acquired and administered privately. DA leader John Steenhuisen has hit back,… Read more »

South Africa: Here's How SA Can End Hunger and Malnutrition This Year

A 'bumper harvest' is predicted for South Africa in 2026. The rains across our country have been uneven (too little in some parts, harsh floods in others). But overall La… Read more »

South Africa: From Thriving to Idle - A Fishing Family's Tale of Change in Kalk Bay

A conversation about fishing boats that can't go to sea, reading the ocean and the changing nature of fishing. Read more »

South Africa: Contentious Traps, a Human Food Addiction and the 'Daddy' Factor - - Why Joburg Is Losing Its War On Rats

A host of initiatives to tackle the city's rat problem have fallen by the wayside, but the City says it is still in the fight. A study, meanwhile, offers a peek into the daily… Read more »

South Africa: SA Maize Futures At Four-Year Lows, Good News for Inflation, Mixed Outcomes for Farmers

South Africa's white and yellow maize futures have slid to four-year lows as a stronger rand, global oversupply and La Niña rains collide. Cheaper maize should cool food… Read more »

South Africa: Lush Veld and Cheaper Feed Boost KZN Agriculture, but Foot-and-Mouth Disease Remains Critical Threat

Like most regions of South Africa, the vegetation and grazing veld in KwaZulu-Natal look green and lush. In terms of crop farming, the province received excessive rainfall across… Read more »

South Africa: 'No Mercy', Harsher Penalties Sought for Farmers Caught Buying Stolen Seeds

Dr Jane Buys, safety risk analyst at Free State Agriculture, says farmers who are caught buying stolen seeds should face harsher penalties. Read more »

South Africa: Confronting SA's Hunger Emergency - - From Constitutional Rights to Empty Plates

South Africa's Constitution guarantees the right to food, yet children are still dying from malnutrition in the Eastern Cape. Bureaucratic failure, systemic inequality and… Read more »

South Africa: After the Bell - Too Many Potatoes, Too Little Power

Spud lovers rejoice, for South Africa currently has too many potatoes. However, things aren't peachy for our humble potato. Read more »

South Africa: SA's Prized Squid Is Exported While Locals Must Eat Cheap Imports

High prices mean the best calamari is sold overseas and local plates get second-rate quality. Read more »

Africa: How Africa Could Become the World's Leading Agricultural Powerhouse and Food Basket

Global food insecurity is rising while Africa holds the land, people, and potential to feed the world. Under South Africa's presidency, the B20's Sustainable Food Systems and… Read more »

South Africa: SA Forges Agricultural Alliances With Brazil and Japan At G20 Meeting

Two new agreements signed on the sidelines of the G20's Agricultural Working Group could give South African farmers new markets and smarter tech. That is if the government can also… Read more »

South Africa: SA's Agricultural Exports Remained Robust in the Second Quarter of 2025 Despite Global Turbulence

Encouragingly, the start of the year has remained positive for the sector. After solid export activity in the first quarter of the year, South Africa's agricultural exports were up… Read more »

South Africa: Joburg Mother and Daughter Eat Cooked Mulberry Leaves to Stave Off Starvation

Following sharp cost-of-living increases in recent years, a mother and her daughter in Waterworks, Johannesburg, sometimes resort to eating cooked leaves from their mulberry tree. Read more »

South Africa: How Roy Campbell's Bobotie Inadvertently Came to the Age of the Air Fryer 🙈

It didn't quite play out as intended, but that is the way of plans and reality. Here's what happened when your Food Editor was challenged to make a favourite recipe of a Karoo… Read more »

South Africa: G20 Side Meetings Offer Opportunities for Expansion of SA's Agri Trade

With leaders and ministers from the world's most powerful economies gathering here, we have a unique and time-sensitive opportunity. Instead of focusing intensely on broad… Read more »

South Africa: Nearly 11,000 South African Children Die From Hunger a Year, a 'Preventable Crime'

Every day in South Africa, the equivalent of a classroom full of children dies from hunger, activist Mark Heywood told The Gathering 2025. Read more »

South Africa: SA Citrus Eyes Record Export of 180m Cartons, but Trump Tariffs May Prune That Estimate

US consumers and citrus growers in the Western and Northern Cape both stand to lose from the Trump administration's looming 30% tariff on South African imports. There are no… Read more »

South Africa: More Than Two Dozen Children Have Starved to Death in Nelson Mandela Bay in the Past Year

Alarmingly, the numbers have almost doubled since 2023, when 14 children under the age of five starved to death in Nelson Mandela Bay. Read more »

Africa: Unique Fauna and Flora Under Siege On South Africa's West Coast

The smallest tortoise in the world lives on South Africa's west coast, and a button-shaped succulent endemic to a tiny area of the Northern Cape can be found nowhere else in the… Read more »

South Africa: New Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak Among Free State Cattle, 270 Cases Now in 5 Provinces

The rapid spread of the disease - and the top-notch operations that have been hit - underscore mounting concerns about South Africa's capacity to rise to the challenge of… Read more »

South Africa: On Landfills, Butternut and Buffets - Zero Waste Summit

The Western Cape provincial government target stipulates that 50% of organic waste should be diverted from landfills by 2022, and 100% by 2027. Read more »