Spiralling food prices are driving inflation and squeezing household budgets. This is exacerbating poverty, hunger and debt.

Soil erosion is a serious environmental problem in South Africa, affecting both land and water resources.

Food prices are affected by overall price inflation, but they are also an inflation driver in their own right.

Livestock farming contributes to poverty reduction in rural areas. However, industrialised livestock farming is one of the greatest threats to planetary and human health.

The IMF is sounding the alarm as climate change threatens to worsen food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.