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Ruth Hall works from Cape Town, South Africa. land, food, agriculture, and all things political in South Africa... and anywhere else Ruth Hall has over 8026 followers on Twitter.

S20 warns that climate change is endangering human health, food systems and ecosystems worldwide
COLETTE SOLOMON

The farm workers who produce our food are the most vulnerable to hunger

When drafting policies to address this situation, it is important that the voices of the workers themselves are taken into account

  • Stephen Devereux
  • Ruth Hall
  • Colette Solomon
7 min read
Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers
AGRISA

South Africa is still way behind the curve on transforming land ownership

There is very little clarity as to who owns what land in South Africa. A lack of reliable data and statistics doesn’t help.

  • Ben Cousins
  • Ruth Hall
6 min read
The ANC manifesto promises to address ‘the ongoing problems of poverty
LAND ACT

ANC land policies: Talk left, walk right?

It’s good election rhetoric but the main problems dogging farm redistribution are not being addressed, say Ben Cousins and Ruth Hall.

  • Ben Cousins
  • Ruth Hall
6 min read
South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee lowered the 2023-24 maize harvest to 12,8 million tonnes, down 2% from last month and 22% from the previous season.
1913 LAND ACT

Farming problems are clear but the solutions are not

Can we create one million new jobs in agriculture as envisaged by the National Development Plan (NDP)? If so, how?

  • Ben Cousins
  • Ruth Hall
4 min read
SOUTH AFRICA

Land reform’s middle ground

When President Jacob Zuma announced his new Cabinet, he ushered in a new era for the state’s apparatus charged with responding to rural poverty.

  • Ruth Hall
20 min read
KWAZULU NATAL

The unfinished business of land reform

Widely reported as ”the first farm expropriation”, the Commission on the Restitution of Land Rights recently announced that it had expropriated a 25 200ha farm near Barkley West…

  • Ruth Hall
10 min read