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The 2022 Census of Agricultural Households counted roughly 2.4 million small-scale Farmers in South Africa, outnumbering about 40’000 commercial and just 2’600 large-scale operations almost 60 to 1. Yet they don’t reach formal markets.
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South Africa’s land and mining crisis is political and structural, and experts at the 2026 Mining Indaba agree that reform requires collective, democratic community control over land.
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South Africans are set to pay more for beef and pork as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) disrupts the meat value chain and fast food restaurants pass the price hikes on to consumers.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow at about 4.4% this year, making it one of the world’s fastest-growing economic regions.
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South Africa has faced a chronic water shortage for many years, with large parts of the country experiencing recurring drought conditions, depleted groundwater, and critically low dam levels in many regions.
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Many skilled black farmers in South Africa struggle to build commercially successful businesses because they do not own the land they farm, limiting their access to capital.
