Those in the food security space are invited to the online consultation on the V0 draft of the report "Reducing inequalities for food security and nutrition", launched by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) of the Committee on World...
On 11 October, more than 30 people, including representatives of local and provincial government, donor organisations, academics and researchers, urban farmers, and grassroots organisations working within food systems participated in the Woza Nami Learning Journey. ...
Participate in the next African Food Dialogue featuring Nicholas Nisbet and Jane Battersby, founders of the Food Equity Centre. Facilitated by Prof Thuli Madonsela, Jane and Nicholas will present some of the initial thinking that is emerging from the Food Equity Centre and other related...
In several villages in the Eastern Cape there are reports of children running a food stokvel, a practice they have termed ‘Umgalelo’, to make sure that at least twice a week their school feeding scheme fills their little stomachs. Their hunger, and the indignity they...
Across SA many food systems are broken, with farmers growing produce that is not sold in their own communities, and buyers travelling hundreds of kilometres to buy produce that is often grown in their own communities. Through Woza Nami local farmers are not only learning...
Treasury has made a policy decision that pushes the poorest and the youngest, who are already teetering on the brink, over the edge....
The Food Lab in partnership with the provincial Nourish to Flourish working group, the Centre of Excellence in Food Security, and the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership, facilitated a two-day Learning Lab in Langa, City of Cape Town on the 1st and 2nd of September 2022. ...
Prof Scott Drimie and Kenneth Carden from the Southern Africa Food Lab, Bridgette Mabuela from the Seriti Institute, and Craig Schwabe of AfricaScope present findings of the research from a project initiated by the UNDP on food loss and waste and implementation of solutions....
On the day Luleka Gqumeta’s baby died, she says she was in the streets begging for food for her and her children. It was October 2020, amid COVID-19-related social restrictions and Gqumeta – unemployed with three other school-going children – was struggling to feed her...
There are many ways to partner, yet as with any recipe, a partnering process starts with the basics and can be adapted and improved over time. This guide reflects the outcomes of a Recipes for Partnering workshop....
The Food Lab, in partnership with the provincial Nourish to Flourish working group, the Centre of Excellence in Food Security, and the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership, facilitated a two-day Learning Journey in Langa, City of Cape Town on the 1st and 2nd of September 2022. ...
“The floods really took a chunk of my life. Faith is what I need to go on for yet another day.” Multi-award-winning potato farmer Nonhlanhla Joye opens up about the hardship of losing an entire harvest overnight....
The thriving — or destruction — of one solitary urban farm is a relative blip in our overall trajectory to a climate-resilient country. But the destruction of the Bertrams Inner City Farm highlights deep concerns about our holistic response to the climate crisis....
Stellenbosch University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine co-hosted the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week South Africa Day....
If the multi-faceted reality of agrarian change and post-colonial capitalist development in the Global South are overlooked, simplistic and linear agri-nutrition pathways will be favoured. Against this backdrop, agri-nutrition interventions and programmes are widely used by governments in the Global South, and are promoted by...
Children’s rights to food and adequate nutrition took centre stage on Thursday evening at the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week hosted jointly by Stellenbosch University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine....
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....