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.
Nobody wants to be trapped in a menial, minimum-wage job. Yet in commercial and subsistence agriculture alike, these are the vast majority of jobs that the sector offers young South Africans. Relative...
On 25 July, WWF South Africa will host the Living Planet Conference 2019 at which Food Lab Director, Dr Scott Drimie, and Food Lab Chair, Tatjana von Bormann, will both be speaking. This year’s ...
Last week WWF South Africa took the learning of the Food Lab to the “world’s largest gathering of multi-stakeholder dialogues” (so defined by Chairman of the EAT Advisory Board, Johan Rockström). With...
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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.
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A number of T-labs have been designed to interrogate and strengthen an alternative food system in the Western Cape, South Africa. Read more about the process here.
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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.
