15 October 2012 | Press Releases
Annette Steyn, Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
In South Africa today, approximately 11 million people in 2.8 million households are food insecure – that is at least one in every five South Africans. The Food Security Index released by the Economist Intelligence Unit earlier this year ranks South Africa 40th out of 105 countries in terms of food security. In a world of plenty, this is unacceptable. Almost 9 million tonnes of food are wasted every year in South Africa alone, the large majority of which didn’t even make it to market thanks to weak distribution mechanisms.
