The Southern Africa Food Lab was established in 2009 to promote creative responses to the problem of hunger through multistakeholder dialogue and action. The Lab team is one of unprecedented diversity in the region, comprising stakeholders from corporate, grassroots, NGO, academic, and government sectors, all working together to transform the food system from farm to table. Over the past decade the Lab has successfully facilitated collaboration and dialogue, not just raising awareness, but effectively catalysing action to foster innovations and experimental action towards a thriving, just and sustainable food system.
On Friday night (3 May 2019) a Coastal Food Jam took place at Soute in Salt River. The event was the culmination of a two day Transformation Lab (T-Lab) for Coastal Wild Food stakeholders in the Weste...
An urgent global shift towards sustainable plant-based diets has been touted as a crucial ingredient to cut greenhouse gas emissions from food systems and improve health outcomes. This is among a raft...
by Charlie Shackleton Over half a million households in South Africa’s former homelands disengaged from farming between 2011 and 2016, according to Statistics South Africa. This represents a loss of o...
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Read SAFL Director, @scottdrimie and SAFL Chair, Tatjana von Bormann's comments in this @SaturdayStar article by @sheree_bega:
https://t.co/qd7fHQz0aD
The agricultural sector could be a key source of job creation for young people. But conventional opinion has it that they are turning their backs on the sector despite high levels of unemployment. So what gives? Read more here: https://t.co/hegPGbdm5f
The findings of the EAT-Lancet 2019 report, summed up in one line from Prof. Johan Rockström: “What is supposed to be nourishing us is killing us.”
Did you miss #EATForum19? Watch @jessfanzo and @jrockstrom outline the way forward.
https://t.co/7eRe2VR1OO
The Food Lab has drawn on a wide range of sponsors and partners to enable its work over the past 10 years. The main partners are featured below.
