03 Oct Female farmworker collective fights against EU-banned pesticides
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....
21 Aug UnPoison Publishes South Africa’s List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides and Calls on South African Government to Take Urgent Action
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...
24 Nov Woza Nami Learning Journey
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. ...
01 Nov Treasury is pushing SA’s poorest and youngest over the edge in a cruel trade-off
Treasury has made a policy decision that pushes the poorest and the youngest, who are already teetering on the brink, over the edge....
21 Oct Langa learning journey
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. ...
04 Oct In-depth: What’s behind the increase in malnutrition deaths among Free State infants?
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...
14 Sep Langa Learning Journey
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. ...
14 Jul R3 million potato harvest gone! Joye fights to get back up
“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....
30 Jun Children’s rights to nutrition must be put at the centre of food systems, conference is told
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....
21 Jun A unique food and nutrition journey
Worcester was recently the location of a “learning journey” where participants gained first-hand experience of challenges in the town’s food system....