The situation facing southern Africa is dire. Crops have failed, livestock has died and nearly 70 million people are desperately in need of food. Zimbabwe declared a national disaster in April.
South Africa’s biggest retailer, Shoprite, has published its inaugural Food Security Index for 2024, showing that the country’s food security levels are at their lowest point since 2012.
The number of people in South Africa able to meet their minimum nutritional needs slipped last year, as a weak economy and inflationary pressures hit households and deepened food insecurity. A ...
A food crisis triggered by the most severe drought in the last 40 years in southern Africa has left 15 million people in need of urgent food assistance beginning this month. The region is ...
South African food producers and retailers have been slow to pass on the effects of declining cost pressures to cash-strapped consumers, an issue that may warrant further investigation ...