Documents seen by Sunday Standard show that Botswana is teetering on the edge of a food crisis as grain farmers warn of an unprecedented threat to the nation’s food security over unpaid millions of Pula owed to farmers.
Farmers have placed the blame squarely on the Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB) and government inaction citing unpaid deliveries totaling P300 million, a failure they say could devastate the country’s agricultural sector and leave communities facing severe shortages.
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