Food Dialogues 2022
Learn ways to bring about a healthier, more resilient and just food system, connect with people shaping the future of food, and discover new insights into our food culture....
Learn ways to bring about a healthier, more resilient and just food system, connect with people shaping the future of food, and discover new insights into our food culture....
Worcester was recently the location of a “learning journey” where participants gained first-hand experience of challenges in the town’s food system....
In South Africa just over a quarter of the population are still food insecure despite sufficient food being produced at national level, according to the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey....
Food justice is a term that encompasses many areas — food security, food systems, food sovereignty, food literacy. But it also describes a movement and commitment towards securing everyone’s right to safe, healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food....
It costs at least R800 per month to ensure that a child eats enough nutritious meals to grow and develop adequately. Unfortunately, South Africa’s childcare grant currently only provides R480, with which caregivers also need to cover other expenses. It’s therefore not surprising that a country such...
It has been particularly depressing in the past weeks to read about the implications of the Ukraine war on malnutrition (among other things). It raises the question: why have we not learned from past experience to create greater nutrition resilience? A naïve question of course,...
The Western Cape Economic Development Partnership (EDP) and the Southern Africa Food Lab have joined forces with the Centre of Excellence in Food Security to help disseminate the findings of a place-based research project led by professors Julian May and Bruno Losch. The team...
The average household food basket in South Africa increases by R354.22 or 8.9% (February 2022 statistic) and food prices continue to rise. The food poverty line is now R624.00 per month and the child support grant is R460.00 per month. Every year the poverty indices...
The shrinking of farm sizes that prevents smallholder farmers to earn a living income is a major stumbling block in the future of farming in Africa. This is according to Ken Giller, Professor of Plant Production Systems at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, at an...
Food justice is a term that encompasses many areas — food security, food systems, food sovereignty, food literacy. But it also describes a movement and commitment towards securing everyone’s right to safe, healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate food....
The Woza Nami (‘come with me’) project focuses on strengthening healthy food production and nutrition awareness through the scaling of vegetable farming in informal settlements based on agroecological practice....
WWF South Africa and the Food Lab have partnered up to create a step-by-step guide to equip practitioners to navigate the food system within their cities. ...
South Africa’s informal farming sector is contributing far more to the economy and ultimately also food security than is officially being recognised. More should be done to develop this sector, and to intensify farming endeavours. On the commercial side, policy issues and infrastructure problems, such...
By Tracy Ledger In the present local government model, municipal services are seen primarily as a source of revenue rather than a tool for socioeconomic development. This guarantees that poor households will remain so, that quality of life will remain low, that the struggle to feed...
By Duduzile Mkhize We cannot build a nation on a weak foundation; adequate nutrition is the first essential building block for good health, brain development and economic prosperity, and the future of our country depends on it. Today as our leaders participate in the UN Food Systems...
To secure the future and improve the present, our thinking, planning and organising should be shifted to a point where SA’s normal is a food system that revolves around the needs of our children. ...
By Trusha Lakey Please view the video: [video width="480" height="480" mp4="https://www.southernafricafoodlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/VIDEO-2021-09-08-13-29-46.mp4"][/video] ...
https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/ethekwini-municipality-sa-food-lab-partnership-aims-to-strengthen-local-food-networks-impacted-by-covid-19-fd7e1b10-20b6-4592-9f0c-b51f70b804e9...
“Legacies of enslavement and cattle theft are forgotten in our memories of land dispossession. Yet, they created conditions for the seizure of the land. They amplified the impact of land dispossession. If the land story is to be told, the legacies of enslavement and cattle...
https://youtu.be/e7JZKZqa8ys...