World Food Day: Rural Women's Assembly Statement
| Rural Women's Assembly Food and hunger: Food security and food sovereignty
17 October 2022
The Rural Women's Assembly (RWA) issued a Media Statement to highlight the pressing issue of hunger in the Southern Africa region.
Traditional farming methods shouldn't be disregarded
| Anna Majavu, 6th June 2022 Food and hunger: Food security and food sovereignty
First published in the New Frame. Anna Majavu draws attention to the research of Brian Mandipaza – a researcher and farmer from Zimbabwe.
Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar count deaths, damage by storm
| Alexandre Nhampossa Food and hunger: Food security and food sovereignty
Several countries in Southern Africa have also experienced the impact of climate change.
We will all die’: In Kenya, prolonged drought takes heavy toll
| Virginia Pietromarchi Food and hunger: Food security and food sovereignty
Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar are facing ecological disasters.
Agroecology: Is this a pathway towards Africa’s food systems transformation?
| Nancy Rapando & Emmanual Ochola Matsaba, East and Central Africa, Solidaridad Food and hunger: Food security and food sovereignty
The development and maintenance of secure food systems forms an important backbone of a healthy society.
Global environmental change and food systems in Southern Africa: the dynamic challenges facing regional policy
| S. Drimie, J. Arntzen, P. Dube, J.S.I. Ingram, R.T Mano, C. Mataya, M.T. Muchero, E. Vhurumuku and G. Ziervogel Food and hunger: Food security and food sovereignty
The ecological crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgency for countries in Africa to prioritise the development and protection of food systems.
How climate change contributed to Madagascar’s food crisis
| Chris Funk | University of California Food and hunger: Food security and food sovereignty
In 2021, the United Nations announced that Madagascar was on the brink of the world’s first “climate change famine” resulting in many people suffering “catastrophic” levels of hunger.
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