After years of decline, worldwide rates of chronic hunger and malnourishment are on the rise as a byproduct of COVID-19.

For decades, people have been debating agricultural productivity in Africa in international conferences and national policy forums. So why has so little progress has been made in improving agricultural production and improving rural livelihoods? 

South Africa saw at least 10.3 million tonnes of food and beverages going to waste this year, despite increasing levels of food insecurity and extreme poverty.

It's a week of tech news whether from CES in Las Vegas or across the ag industry. This week venture capital firm S2G Ventures revealed 10 trends shaping the future of food and agtech in 2022.

It is thought that four thousand years ago, in ancient Mesopotamia, the Babylonians celebrated the rebirth of the natural world – a sort of ancient New Year – in mid-March, the start of the planting season.

Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a continued focus on food production.

The data released by Statistics South Africa this morning shows that consumer food price inflation accelerated to 6,2% y/y in January 2022, from 5,9% y/y in the previous month. Fish, oils and fats, and vegetables are the primary products underpinning this uptick in the overall consumer food price inflation.

The good maize production in South Africa this year gives a short window to plan for the next El Niño which will mean severe droughts for the region, and to build resilient regional food production to guard against global changes.

Agriculture is facing an unprecedented challenge – here are five things we need to change.

The economic shock set off by the Russian invasion of Ukraine will be among the most severe in at least 50 years.

Africa must be weaned off the need for Russian wheat, believes the African Development Bank (AfDB) who has announced plans to raise $1 billion to achieve this goal. This, as global wheat giant Russia continues its war on Ukraine.

The climate crisis is threatening food stocks in sub-Saharan Africa, but a comprehensive approach to food, farming and resources could increase crop production by more than 500% in some countries in the region, according to new research by more than 200 experts.

The sea carries more than 80 percent of the world’s traded goods, most of which sail inside 40-foot-long steel containers stacked by the thousands atop some of the largest vessels ever built.

The subject of food prices is again a major focus as the agricultural commodities prices continue to surge on the back of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Rising global hunger in recent years has prompted calls for a broad reckoning over what is wrong with global food systems.

Protecting forests, changing diets, and altering farming methods could contribute around a quarter of the greenhouse gas cuts needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations' climate panel.

Nearly 690 million people are hungry today.

A historical view on the affordability of the BFAP Thrifty Healthy Food Basket over time The affordability of the BFAP THFB is influenced by food price movements as well as household incomes.