Tsikoane Market Centre Underused and Overlooked

Despite its promise to boost local trade and farmer incomes, the Tsikoane Market Centre in Leribe stands as a stark symbol of exclusion and underutilisation, leaving many in the community disillusioned. Member of Parliament for Tsikoane, Malefetsane Mabote, raised urgent concerns about the facility’s failure to serve the broader population. He questioned both the limited…

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Branding Breakdown Fuels Stock Theft

…865 stolen in April alone By Ntsoaki Motaung and Relebohile Makhetha The country’s rural economy is bleeding as stock theft surges, leaving farmers devastated and communities at risk. At the heart of this growing crisis lies a broken livestock identification system marked by equipment shortages, low coverage, and slow service delivery. In April 2025 alone,…

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Stakeholders Trained on Food Balance Sheet to Support Evidence-Based Food and Nutrition Policies

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently held a two-weeks training in Maseru aimed at capacitating the Bureau of Statistics (BoS) on compiling and analysing the national Food Balance Sheet (FBS)—a critical statistical framework that captures the total volume of agricultural commodities produced across all sectors. This inaugural training workshop, funded by the FAO and…

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