“Food translates to love for me”
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] ...
10 September, 2021
eThekwini Municipality, SA Food Lab partnership aims to strengthen local food networks impacted by Covid-19
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...
06 September, 2021
Need to remember the past when trying to solve land matters, food security issues
“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...
06 September, 2021
Get a sneak peek into the Local Voices series of interviews
https://youtu.be/e7JZKZqa8ys...
03 September, 2021
Food Dialogues: Registrations open for Local Voices
By Kurt Ackerman (Executive Manager and Trustee, SA Urban Food and Farming Trust) I’m reaching out to you as someone who registered to be part of the Food Dialogues in 2020 because this year’s event opened for registration today, Monday 30 August, and will kick off...
03 September, 2021
City partners with SA Food Lab to stimulate agrarian development
http://www.durban.gov.za/Resource_Centre/new2/Pages/City-partners-with-SA-Food-Lab-to-stimulate-agrarian-development.aspx ...
03 September, 2021
Nutrition activists urge Nestlé to cancel ‘Free Stokvel Mom and Child Forum’ saying it violates SA regulations
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-08-12-nutrition-activists-urge-nestle-to-cancel-free-stokvel-mom-and-child-forum-saying-it-violates-sa-regulations/ ...
13 August, 2021
Indigenous crops ‘key to resetting the African food system’ post-COVID-19
Africa’s indigenous crops are crucial to resetting the continent’s food system in a post-COVID-19 world. Contact Julia Harper at jrs@sun.ac.za or visit www.southernafricafoodlab.org for more information....
10 August, 2021
This is how South Africa can eliminate poverty in three years
* This article was first published by New Frame. https://www.iol.co.za/amp/news/politics/opinion/this-is-how-south-africa-can-eliminate-poverty-in-three-years-455ed613-da8a-45bb-9e30-d932408e1813...
09 August, 2021
Announcement of Inqola FEED Innovation Prize Finalists
https://www.feed.org.za/winners-inqola-feed-innovation-prize-2021/...
30 July, 2021
A Proposed Framework for Urban Agriculture Development in South African Cities
Nicola Martin's MBA thesis aims to include what to consider when starting an urban farm or garden into one document which can be applied by various groups and organisations - including both profit-seeking and non-profit seeking businesses. It also aims to broaden our approaches to...
29 July, 2021
South Africa is turning on itself
The mass looting over the past few days is not a sign of revolution in our streets and on television. ...
22 July, 2021
South Africa unrest: We are not a failed state, but a failed global system
South Africa encapsulates global inequalities – and the kinds of tumult we’ll see more and more of worldwide – inside national borders....
22 July, 2021
The Crisis in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng with Mervyn Abrahams
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouadevNAVnI&feature=share...
22 July, 2021
Streamlining Governance challenges in Civil Society Organisations – how not to scare funders?
In early 2021, Seriti Institute, through one of its programmes, Seriti PARTNER, identified good governance and financial management as a serious challenge in NGOs, CBOs and CSOs. Seriti PARTNER was designed with an intention of strengthening CSOs contributions to the communities they work with and...
22 June, 2021
A child-centred food system
The 2020 Child Gauge contends that the current food system is driving the double burden of malnutrition and damaging both children’s health and the environment. This is because it does not consider children or their health and is increasingly flooded by cheap, unhealthy food....
04 March, 2021
Strengthening local food networks for food systems transformation
The objective of the Strengthening local food networks for food systems transformation Project is to reconnect and recalibrate local food systems in eThekwini Municipality and iLembe District Municipality. Much of the initial groundwork of this project has been based on dialogue, but in order to transition...
28 January, 2021
Turning Short-Term Crisis Relief Into Longer-Term Social Innovation
Civil society responses to COVID-19 in South Africa have shown remarkable agility, scope, and impact in the last nine months, especially in responding to the most-pressing problem in many vulnerable communities: hunger. However, these civil society efforts are now facing new challenges....
05 December, 2020
Covid-19 Roundup | Food and water shortages
22 May 2020: Graffiti reminds residents of the Matharea settlement in Nairobi, Kenya, to sanitise during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rich countries have already secured more than a billion doses of vaccines. (Photograph by Reuters/ Baz Ratner) Food aid not distributed The KwaZulu-Natal department of social development has...
24 November, 2020
South Africa’s children are too short and too fat, going against the global trend
A Lancet article reporting on children’s height and weight changes over the past 30 years makes for grim reading when it comes to South Africa. ...
24 November, 2020