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      • African Food Dialogues
      • Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy Week
      • Urban Food System Thinking
    • Localised food systems
      • Woza Nami
      • Taking local food systems recalibration to scale
      • Reconnecting and recalibrating local food systems and eThekwini and iLembe
      • Langa learning journey
    • Good Agricultural Practice
      • The rollout of food safety standards amongst small scale farmers
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      • Understanding Food Loss and Waste Streams
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      • Masi Ambassadors
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      • Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems
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      • Western Cape Nutrition Strategy
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01 Nov Treasury is pushing SA’s poorest and youngest over the edge in a cruel trade-off

Posted at 13:40h in Blog, Food, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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Treasury has made a policy decision that pushes the poorest and the youngest, who are already teetering on the brink, over the edge....

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21 Oct Langa learning journey

Posted at 10:56h in event, Food, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger, Smallholder Farmers by Carolyn Cramer
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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.  ...

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04 Oct In-depth: What’s behind the increase in malnutrition deaths among Free State infants?

Posted at 08:51h in Blog, Covid-19, Food, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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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...

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02 Jun South Africa’s hunger problem is turning into a major health crisis

Posted at 16:09h in Blog, Food, Food security, Food Systems by Carolyn Cramer
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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....

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31 May Some of what we eat is slowly poisoning us

Posted at 10:13h in Food, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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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....

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16 May Understanding Worcester’s food system through learning journeys

Posted at 09:18h in Food, Food security, Food Systems by Carolyn Cramer
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The Western Cape Economic Development Partnership (EDP) and the Southern Africa Food Lab have joined forces with the Centre of Excellence in Food Security to help disseminate the findings of a place-based research project led by professors Julian May and Bruno Losch. The team...

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22 Apr Some of what we eat is slowly poisoning us

Posted at 12:38h in Blog, Food, Food security by Carolyn Cramer
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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....

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22 Sep A broken system: The hunger crisis plaguing South Africa

Posted at 10:32h in Blog, Covid-19, Food, Food security, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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In a Jacana ‘Don’t Shut Up’ conversation with Maverick Citizen editor Mark Heywood, author Tracy Ledger explains the direct link between malnutrition and a propensity for violence. From abused farmworkers to a lack of coordination at all levels of government, the food system not only...

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10 Sep Reports from the coalface: Informal traders share their lockdown stories of survival and making do

Posted at 13:31h in Blog, Covid-19, Food, Food Systems, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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By Lelona Mxesibe - 27 August 2020 The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the spotlight on the importance of the informal economy as a means of survival for South Africa’s 2.9 million citizens without access to formal employment – as well as their resulting vulnerability. This is another...

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28 Aug The impact of FoodFlow through COVID-19

Posted at 12:59h in Blog, Covid-19, Food, Food security, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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Through the past 5 months, Food Flow have spent over R1.6 Million in purchases from small scale farmers, fishers and producers supporting more than 400 livelihoods all while getting food into more than 30 communities in 3 provinces. The organisation's Impact Report tells the story of...

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