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...
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...