, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN). …

Over the last few decades, Southern African governments have identified the eradication or alleviation of poverty as a … key objective of developmental programmes. In spite of these repeated articulations and ongoing efforts poverty levels … have not fallen. In fact, poverty has gradually worsened culminating in the present region-wide food crisis. The crisis …

Although the small kingdom is perceived to be middle income, previous livelihoods and poverty reports, reveal that at … least 60 to 70% of the Swazi population live below the poverty line. It is now recognised that the current food security …