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| Agriculture |
 | ROY HENDERSON To feed the world in a new era of awareness and to sustain their own future, manufacturers need to change their mindsets... Read |
| Agribusiness |
 | TANIA BROUGHTON Tobacco companies want access to minutes of behind-closed-door meetings where ministers voted on Covid-19-busting regulations... Read |
 | PAUL MAKUBE At 15.22 million tonnes, the maize harvest will be the third-largest on record having been raised by 2.8% from the previous month and 35% year-on-year... Read |
| Commercial Fishing |
 | Distressed small-scale and interim relief fishers across the country will receive some reprieve as the Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Department in partnership with FishSA are set to distribute 10, 000 food parcels... Read |
| Food Security |
 | Food Lover's Market has launched its fourth annual Hunger Month in-store campaign this May... Read |
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 | MELISSA MBAZO While skills development and policymaking play a vital role in long term transformation efforts, youth entrepreneurship serves as a viable way to achieve tangible impact on a local, national and even continental scale... Read |
 | More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included... Read |
 | WILSON ODHIAMBO Food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty may intensify in Africa and other developing world nations as the Covid-19 pandemic deepens, making resilient and inclusive food systems to mitigate likely calamities urgent, a report says... Read |
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 | Fuel price changes will be effected on Wednesday, 6 May 2020... Read |
 | THAMI MOATSHE Economists forecast that the nationwide lockdown implemented to contain the spread of the coronavirus will have far-reaching economic implications... Read |
 | MISHECK MUTIZE A number of rating agencies have downgraded emerging market economies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their actions have raised the question: why do so during a crisis? Read |
 | ROWAN LEIBBRANDT This too shall pass. And once it has, we will need small-, micro- and medium-sized enterprises more than ever to boost our flailing economy, drive innovation and create jobs... Read |
 | The Covid-19 coronavirus has forced essential businesses to offer delivery options and pushed consumers to buy online... Read |
 | No-one knows what the long-term economic effects of the Covid-19 epidemic will be... Read |
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