Clues and solutions to Kenya's puzzling food price crisis: Roasted maize for sale in Nairobi as grain prices reach historic highs in Kenya. Reuters/Noor KhamisGovernments everywhere have the twin responsibility of ensuring that food prices are affordable for the majority of people, while guaranteeing good margins for producers. In practice, many opt to subsidise producers of … [Read more...] about Clues and solutions to Kenya’s puzzling food price crisis | The Conversation
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Fiesta with Zapper at the 2017 Tequila & Mexican Food Festival
Fiesta with Zapper at the 2017 Tequila & Mexican Food Festival: On Saturday, 13 May 2017, live music, fine food and tequila on tap will all come together under one sombrero at the Tequila & Mexican Food Festival. Hosted by Arcade Empire at the ultra-chic Royal Elephant Hotel in Centurion, this year’s colourful celebration of Speedy Gonzales’ homeland is set to be spicier … [Read more...] about Fiesta with Zapper at the 2017 Tequila & Mexican Food Festival
Why brutalising food vendors hits Africa’s growing cities where it hurts | The Conversation
Why brutalising food vendors hits Africa's growing cities where it hurts: A fishmonger pleads for customers in a Kenyan market. Reuters/Thomas MukoyaIn January this year, the Harare City Council in Zimbabwe accused informal food vendors of spreading typhoid. The council then attempted to confiscate, and destroy, all perishable food items that were being hawked in the central … [Read more...] about Why brutalising food vendors hits Africa’s growing cities where it hurts | The Conversation
Johannesburg and Accra: inching their way up the urban food chain | The Conversation
Johannesburg and Accra: inching their way up the urban food chain: Johannesburg's night sky with its most densely-populated suburb of Hillbrow in the foreground. Leon KrigeLike it or not, we measure the success (or failure) of cities according to broad principles of urban culture inherited largely from the west. This includes quantitative data: infrastructure, … [Read more...] about Johannesburg and Accra: inching their way up the urban food chain | The Conversation
WFP uses new route through Sudan to deliver food to famine-hit South Sudan
APO News from Africa: WFP uses new route through Sudan to deliver food to famine-hit South Sudan: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began to move food assistance to reach famine-hit and food-insecure people in South Sudan by using a newly opened humanitarian corridor announced by the Government of Sudan this week. The new route enables WFP to … [Read more...] about WFP uses new route through Sudan to deliver food to famine-hit South Sudan
