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UK: Statement by GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children, form unique partnership to save the lives of one million children (10/05/2013)

An ambitious new partnership to save the lives of a million of the poorest children in the world has been launched by GSK and Save the Children. This unique collaboration will see the two...

SA: Statement by Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry, on locally produced products (18/04/2013)

ambitious new partnership to save the lives of a million of the poorest children in the world has been launched by GSK and Save the Children. This unique collaboration will see the two...

Food security: What does this mean for Africa?

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob says South Africans need to make it a habit to buy and eat local foods. He was speaking at the launch of the eat well eat safe eat local campaign at...

SA: Bathabile Dlamini: Address by the Minister of Social Development, during the Social Development Month launch, Bluegumbosch Stadium, Free State (03//10/2012)

Food security is a challenge in both the developing and the developed world; the difference lies in the magnitude of the problem and the proportion of the population that is affected.(2) Within...

SPEECH

It is an honour for me together with the Social Development team to launch the 2012 Social Development month. This year is an important year for our organisation, the ANC, as it marked 100 years of...

Food insecurity and malnutrition in Africa: Current trends, causes and consequences

Towards the future we want: End hunger and make the transition to sustainable agricultural and food systems (June 2012)

Despite the general worldwide reduction in food insecurity,(2) Africa’s food security and nutrition situation is growing worse. Africa has been experiencing several episodes of acute food...

FOOD

Improving agricultural and food systems is essential for a world with healthier people and healthier ecosystems. Healthy and productive lives cannot be achieved unless “all people at all times...

DA: Statement by Wilmot James, Democratic Alliance Shadow Minister of Trade & Industry, on South Africans being denied their right to be free from hunger (14/05/2012)

A review of food security implications of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa

Rapidly rising food prices are undermining poor South Africans’ human right to be free from hunger. The cumulative effect of global price increases, depressed agricultural production in South...

SA: Dlamini: Briefing by the Minister of Social Development, at the social protection and community development ministerial cluster briefing, Cape Town (14/02/2012)

Africa is particularly susceptible to the adverse impacts of climate change because about 95% of agricultural activities,(2) on which an estimated 70-80% of the continent’s population thrives,(3)...

WTO: Lamy: Address by the Director-General, at a congress of agricultural economists, Zurich (30/08/2011)

In his State of the Nation Address (SoNA), The Honourable President Mr Jacob Zuma identified the tackling of poverty, inequality and unemployment as a central theme for the work of Government in...

Saemaul Undong in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Eradicating rural poverty

Date: 30/08/2011
Source: The World Trade Organisation
Title: WTO: Lamy: Address by the Director-General, at a congress of agricultural economists, Zurich

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Daily podcast – January 6, 2011

Rural poverty has been a persistent affliction faced by the majority of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.(2) It has hampered the development efforts of most of SSA and has invariably led to the...

PODCAST

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced that some 67,8% of matrics passed last year's exams – up from 60,7% in 2009, World Bank President Robert Zoellick says that free markets rather...

COSATU: Ntshalintshali: Speech by the Deputy General Secretary to the Annual Summit Meeting of the National Economic Development and Labour Council, Johannesburg (12/09/2009)

SA: Joemat-Petersson: Budget vote speech by the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to Parliament (17/06/2009)

Date: 12/09/2009
Source: COSATU
Title: COSATU: Ntshalintshali: Speech by the Deputy General Secretary to the Annual Summit Meeting of the National Economic Development and...