AGRICULTURE NEWS - Concerned that crimes committed against family farming operations pose a major threat to global food and fibre production, the Southern African Agri Initiative (SAAI) has embarked on an international social mobilisation campaign.
The aim of the campaign is to put pressure on the UN and its 193 member states to strengthen safety and security for the world’s farmers, their families and employees.
SAAI’s chief executive, Francois Rossouw, told Farmer’s Weekly that the launch of the UN’s Decade of Family Farming initiative, covering 2019 to 2028, was the ideal opportunity to highlight to the world just how serious the problem of on-farm crime was, not only in South Africa, but in a number of other countries around the world as well.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly.
