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REUTERS/ Siyabonga Sishi He has no drought insurance.... “ It’s not easy, especially if you’ve got one stream of income: farming.” This precarious livelihood is common among the hundreds of thousands of small farmers in South Africa.... The problem is acute among larger farmers too....