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The Southern Africa Food Lab

The Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) exists to promote creative responses to the problem of hunger. We facilitate collaboration and dialogue between stakeholder groups to raise awareness and foster innovations and experimental action towards a thriving, just, and sustainable food system.

Programmes Of SAFL

TRANSFORMATIVE SCENARIO PLANNING

SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE

SOCIAL PROTECTION, RURAL LIVELIHOODS, AND FOOD SECURITY

LEARNING EVENTS

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11
Jul
Guidance to CT’s urban farmers
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of urbanization in the world, exacerbating issues of food and nutrition security and resulting, at least in part, in a worrying trend of increased incidences of...
06
Jul
Post-doctoral Fellowship: Exploring food systems transformations in Africa’s rapidly changing cities
Location: South Africa and the Netherlands Start: September 2018 The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellowship...
02
Jul
Looking in the mirror: Effective evaluation of social labs
Three students from the USA, Germany and Vietnam, recently completed a Masters Thesis which looks at ways that social labs like the Southern Africa Food Lab are and could be evaluated. It was written ...

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The Future of Food: 2015-2030

Smallholder Markets

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The Southern Africa Food Lab exists to facilitate dialogue, raise awareness, and foster innovations towards a thriving, just and sustainable food system.

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12 Jul

Through a participatory process, UFISAMO has developed guidelines targeted at #urbanfarmers in Cape Town who hope to improve production and quality of their produce. Read more here: https://t.co/dd3AOnYBiR

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6 Jul

Brilliant opportunity: postdoctoral fellowship on African city food systems. Read more here: https://t.co/iHXWtRDWSI PRT

The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) invites applications from South African scholars to undertake postdoctoral research in Land and Agrarian Reform at South African higher education institutions.
https://t.co/2ZN5UD0leq

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Welcome To
The Southern Africa Food Lab

Programmes Of SAFL

TRANSFORMATIVE SCENARIO PLANNING

SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE

SOCIAL PROTECTION, RURAL LIVELIHOODS, AND FOOD SECURITY

LEARNING EVENTS

Blog

Guidance to CT’s urban farmers

Post-doctoral Fellowship: Exploring food systems transformations in Africa’s rapidly changing cities

Looking in the mirror: Effective evaluation of social labs

Video Summaries

The Future of Food: 2015-2030

Smallholder Markets

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Supporting Smallholder Agriculture

Welcome To The Southern Africa Food Lab

Programmes Of SAFL

TRANSFORMATIVE SCENARIO PLANNING

SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE

SOCIAL PROTECTION, RURAL LIVELIHOODS, AND FOOD SECURITY

LEARNING EVENTS

Blog

Guidance to CT’s urban farmers

Post-doctoral Fellowship: Exploring food systems transformations in Africa’s rapidly changing cities

Looking in the mirror: Effective evaluation of social labs

Video Summaries

The Future of Food: 2015-2030

Smallholder Markets

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Programmes

Supporting Smallholder Agriculture

Welcome To
The Southern Africa Food Lab