Tackling food security for a growing population
The department also provides a comprehensive agricultural support programme, in the form of grants, and the Ilima/Letsema programme, for subsistence producers, enables people to produce their own food.
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The department also provides a comprehensive agricultural support programme, in the form of grants, and the Ilima/Letsema programme, for subsistence producers, enables people to produce their own food.
Recently, the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published that the global economy is projected to remain subdued in the second half of 2022, before slowing further in 2023 to an annual growth of just 2.2%...
Global and economic factors are a major threat to food security, alongside the changing climate. The lack of subsistence farming as urbanisation grows contributes to this. However, with a government plan in hand, can the threat to food security be minimised?