A programme supporting emerging women small-scale farmers has been hit hard by the drought. Here a crop of peppers and tomatoes at a school farming scheme at Risenga Primary School, in Giyani, Limpopo province, wilts in the sun. Credit: Desmond Latham/IPS
Newly empowered black farmers ruined by South Africa’s drought
Desmond Latham CAPETOWN (IPS) — Almost half a decade of drought across most of South Africa has led to small towns in crisis and food imports for the first time…
