Quarter of SA households lack access to adequate food – Stats SA
Nearly a quarter of South African homes, 23.1%, lack access to adequate food.
This was one of the findings of the 2023 General Household Survey.
Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke released the results on Thursday.
"Nationally, 23,1% of households considered their access to food as inadequate or severely inadequate,” Maluleke said.
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“We saw such inadequate or severely inadequate in the Northern Cape, North West, and Limpopo.
“The survey found that 11.7% of households nationally named small-scale agriculture as their main source of food.”
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