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 …Read More
Volunteers tackle food insecurity in Touws River by growing vegetables in home and community food gardens. It’s a town where many people are unemployed and struggling to make ends meet....
Smallholder farmers are at the periphery of the food industry and yet farmers such as Nontobeko Khanyile, in collaboration with multiple projects, prove they should be at the forefront of the fight ag...
UnPoison, a South African non-profit organization and civil society network working to protect public health from the harms of highly hazardous pesticides commonly used in South Africa while promoting...
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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.
