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#Food

Have you eaten today? If you did thank a farmer.

Food is what connects and sustains us. We need to reconnect with the food we eat. By making locally sourced, plant-based choices we can challenge corporations that put profits before people’s health.

Together we can influence governments to change policies and tackle the growing corporate control of the food chain, so that public, private, and philanthropic money is shifted from industrial to ecological farming practices.

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Climate change and a failing food system open the door to the armyworm pest

The fall armyworm has reared its ugly head in Africa wreaking havoc across the continent, destroying the maize crop which was much anticipated after droughts of the previous years. The armyworm pest is now present in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. In South Africa, this pest is new and the Government is working…

Greenpeace Africa

14 February 2017
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