By Thabile Nkunjana The past few months have been nothing but problematic for global leaders, food producers, suppliers and everyone else due to COVID-19. Global food supplies have seen a sharp increase in demand for key cereal commodities, especially for rice and wheat at the beginning of April 2020 (IGC, 2020), subsequently affecting domestic markets. […]

By Moses Lubinga All Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states are net importers of rice. Therefore, South Africa cannot rely on them for the supply of rice. Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries imposed temporary trade measures on a number of agricultural products in a bid to ensure that their citizens […]

Sunday afternoons normally invites easy thoughts, and television naturally feeds it. The old habit of skipping through…