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...
http://www.durban.gov.za/Resource_Centre/new2/Pages/City-partners-with-SA-Food-Lab-to-stimulate-agrarian-development.aspx ...
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/ ...
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....
* 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...
https://www.feed.org.za/winners-inqola-feed-innovation-prize-2021/...
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...
The mass looting over the past few days is not a sign of revolution in our streets and on television. ...
South Africa encapsulates global inequalities – and the kinds of tumult we’ll see more and more of worldwide – inside national borders....
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouadevNAVnI&feature=share...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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. ...
Jobless people in the country’s most impoverished province join the growing social grant queues before dawn on empty stomachs, having run out of food for the month....
More than seven million caregivers and 13 million children have been plunged deeper into poverty as payouts of the R500 caregiver grant top-up ended in October....
With more than 200 days of lockdown disruptions under our belts, many of us have found that our understanding of the world in which we live has shifted and we don’t want to return to (ab)normal, nor should we....
What thoughts, actions and capacities are required to build a more equitable food system in SA. We hear from Community Chest CEO, Lorenzo Davids, WWF Programme Impact Lead, Tatjana von Bormann and UCT Professor, Ralph Hamann. ...