The Southern Africa Food Lab was established in 2009 and is housed at the Department of Agriscience’s at Stellenbosch University 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 …Read More
A recent Daily Maverick article draws attention to a new South African study that reveals that ultra-processed foods make up nearly 40% of daily energy intake among low-income adults. The research, pu...
Gareth Haysom argues that the future of any young child conceived today in one of the under-serviced areas of a South African city demands that we act on food insecurity now, and act with urgency and ...
The Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University is offering two PhD posts for the TRANSMOD project...
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Food security 'experts' don't have all the answers: community knowledge is key
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A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
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.
