OPINION | 20m South Africans to starve if paradox of our food systems is not addressed
Nutritional security is possible for all South Africans through investment in the earth.
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Nutritional security is possible for all South Africans through investment in the earth.
The World Health Organization has classified South Africa’s hunger problem as a crisis. While the country is a signatory to the UN Sustainable Development Goals that put the eradication of hunger by 2030 as goal number two, pre-pandemic South Africa was not on track to achieve this. Now, Covid-19 has set it even further back on the path. Maverick Citizen spoke to three NGOs working to eradicate hunger in South Africa and got their assessment on the crisis facing the country, as well as what their individual organisational strategies focused on. Operation Hunger was established in 1978 by Dr...