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Southern Africa: Reliance on Imports and Industrial Farming Deepening Food Crisis Across Southern Africa
ActionAid South Africa, 7 September 2020
The Covid-19 crisis is exposing how Southern Africa’s overreliance on high-cost imported seeds and fertilisers, and a lack of state investment in climate resilient farming… Read more »
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Southern Africa: Southern Africa Fights Against Locust Invasion As Millions Pushed to the Brink
RFI, 7 September 2020
Authorities in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe are scrambling to control titanic swarms of migratory locusts, which have put 7 million people in the southern region at risk… Read more »
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Southern Africa: FCA Briefing with WFP/ActionAid and ESAFF - 7 September 2020
Foreign Correspondents Association of Southern Africa, 7 September 2020
The spread of Covid-19 throughout Southern Africa is worsening the region’s already dire rates of food insecurity and malnutrition, pushing millions more people into poverty… Read more »
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Southern Africa: Synthesis Report on the State of Food and Nutrition Security and Vulnerability in Southern Africa 2020
Relief Web, 28 July 2020
SADC member states urged to strengthen mechanisms to mitigate the impact of Covid-19, as 45 million people across the region face increasing food insecurity Read more »