"Normal hunger" in SA is 25% of people go hungry. Recent #COVID19 survey shows this reached 47% in April, now over 50%. This is a crisis. Every waking moment everyone must focus on how there is hunger & starvation in a "food secure" country. Fix the #FoodSystem! #foodsecurity 
1. Proposals that seem to be emerging from Minister @ThokoDidiza @Laurel_Oettle @Stephengreenb18 so far include: focus on urban agriculture, support informal food trade, identify & promote small-scale agroprocessing in niches (bread baking, maize milling) @FoodSystem #COVID19
2. More proposals to deal with #FoodSystem #COVID19 crisis: urgent land access for small-scale production, changes in public procurement from small-scale producers to provide assured market, commitment from corporate retailers to procure from small-scale producers & CSR.
#COVID19 crisis shows the #FoodSystem in SA needs to be fixed but... ultimately the structural conditions of poverty need a multi-faceted response. Redistributing opportunities across the whole economy is needed alongside food system restructuring. Dialogue on today! @phfiphfi
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