By Khanyisa Tabata
09 November 2009
More than eight-thousand households have benefited from the government’s Food Production Program.
The program was introduced to enhance household and community food production primarily for consumption, and to generate income from the sale of surplus food.
Media reports that the households are provided with agricultural starter packs such as implements, vegetable seedlings and fertilizers.
Public Works Minister Geoff Doidge said today that the program is the result of a partnership between civil society, the corporate sector and government.
The four food banks located in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal, had distributed food through 900 agencies.
The government plans to have a food bank, complemented by a network of village food banks, set up in each of the country's nine provinces.
South Africa and Sub-Sahara's first food bank was launched in Cape Town in March and already a number of countries around the world have set up their own networks of food banks.
09 November 2009
More than eight-thousand households have benefited from the government’s Food Production Program.
The program was introduced to enhance household and community food production primarily for consumption, and to generate income from the sale of surplus food.
Media reports that the households are provided with agricultural starter packs such as implements, vegetable seedlings and fertilizers.
Public Works Minister Geoff Doidge said today that the program is the result of a partnership between civil society, the corporate sector and government.
The four food banks located in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal, had distributed food through 900 agencies.
The government plans to have a food bank, complemented by a network of village food banks, set up in each of the country's nine provinces.
South Africa and Sub-Sahara's first food bank was launched in Cape Town in March and already a number of countries around the world have set up their own networks of food banks.
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