Though the challenges we face regarding eradicating hunger and realising the right to food are immense, through our collective expertise and commitment, we can forge a path towards a South Africa where the justice of eating becomes a social justice in that it is equitably...
Adequate investment in early childhood development (ECD) is the most effective action a country can take to break cycles of intergenerational poverty. This means ensuring children attend quality early learning programmes, are safe, cared for and have access to nutritious food so that their bodies...
The Institute for Economic Justice and East Cape Agricultural Research Project have released an important working paper into cattle and beef production, which provides a useful case study to examine food system just transition questions because of its notable intersections with climate change and jobs...
To date, a total of 183 292 agricultural production inputs vouchers have been issued to subsistence producers...
As women are more often recruited as seasonal workers, they are not given proper training or personal protective equipment, the Women on Farms Project says....
UnPoison, a South African non-profit organization and civil society network working to protect public health from the harms of highly hazardous pesticides commonly used in South Africa while promoting the development of a biological solutions sector for agriculture, has just published the first publicly available list of Highly...
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. ...
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. ...