Swaziland: Bleak Outlook for Food Security

Inadequate agricultural practices and erratic rainfall is expected to increase food insecurity for most of Swaziland's 1.1 million people in 2012, says a government official.

  • Eswatini:   Bleak Outlook for Food Security

    UNIRIN, 15 December 2011

    Archaic agriculture practices and erratic rainfall in the recent planting period is expected to lead to an increase in food insecurity for most of Swaziland's 1.1 million people in… Read more »

  • Eswatini:   No More Subsidized Agricultural Inputs

    UNIRIN, 1 November 2011

    Swaziland's economic crisis has forced the government to put on ice the agricultural input scheme that has made the survival of many subsistence farmers and their families less… Read more »

  • Eswatini:   Heavy Rains Welcome in the Mountain Kingdom

    IPS, 31 January 2011

    There's nothing quite like the enthusiasm that rises from the earth when rains come at last to a drought-stricken region. While heavy rains have caused extensive flooding across… Read more »

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