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South Africa's disputed land
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Limpopo is the most productive fruit and vegetable-growing region in South Africa and nearly the whole province is under land claim.
For decades agriculture here has been dominated by successful white farmers, like Theo De Jager, who is also regional president of the largest farmers' lobby group, Agri SA.
Originally an enthusiastic supporter of land reform, he sold his first farm two years ago under the government's \"willing buyer, willing seller\" scheme, where cooperating farmers are paid market price for their land, which is then transferred to the black claimants.
But Theo's former farm now lies in ruins - dead cattle, dead crops, abandoned by the new owners. All the buildings, including the grand family home, have been ripped apart and pillaged for cables, glass and wood.
Most of the transferred farms have failed and there is mounting concern over food productivity. Theo's new farm is also under claim but this time he will not be a \"willing seller\":
\"If we want to feed 50 million people in this country,\" he says, \"then we need to think differently about land. People will die of hunger if we keep saying we must give land back to those people who roamed here 150 years ago. They're not farmers today.\"
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/7493060.stm
Feeding schemes warn of looming crisis
One of South Africa's leading feeding schemes, Operation Hunger, has warned of the need to recognise signs of a looming hunger crisis.
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Dean Hand, managing director of Feedback Food Redistribution, says South Africa's significant malnourishment and food security problem is getting worse.
\"Food inflation and the down-turn in the economy is pushing vulnerable families over the edge
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http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=vn20080714115825939C883235
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