We need a food security body


The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the gross inadequacies in our food production system and our over-dependence on imports.

IT IS almost impossible to keep up with the numbers. At the time of writing, the Covid-19 virus has infected close to two million people across the globe and killed some 120,000.

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