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Farm to Table is a social movement which promotes serving local food at restaurants and schools preferably through direct acquisition from the producer.

Bringing this closer to home, the government launched the Poverty Eradication Programme in 2011 with a mandate to empower citizens through sustainable income generation and employment initiatives.

The programme featured initiatives such as backyard gardening. Personally, the idea of backyard gardening, to be self-sufficient, first appealed to me during probably the second COVID-19 lockdown.

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Batswana need to do better to stop FMD

It is a clear signal that the government’s purse is empty and that our own behaviour has left veterinary officials fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. We have been here before. During COVID-19, many of us thought we knew better. We ignored simple rules, we carried on as if the danger was someone else’s problem, and the virus took lives and left our economy on its knees. We are still broke from that experience. Yet now, with FMD...

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