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. ...
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...
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....
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....
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....