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      • Woza Nami
    • Nutrition
      • Masi Ambassadors
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      • Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems
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      • Competition Commission Fresh Produce Market Inquiry
      • Western Cape Governance
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      • Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy Week
      • The African Food Fellowship
      • Transformative Scenario Planning
      • Urban Food System Thinking
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      • Strengthening local food networks for food systems transformation
      • Taking local food systems recalibration to scale
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      • Langa learning journey
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      • Western Cape Nutrition Strategy
      • Obesogenic Food Environments
      • The Nourished Child
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      • FARMNET Research
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      • Social, Environmental and Ethical Standards
      • Supporting Smallholder Agriculture Workshop
      • The rollout of food safety standards amongst small scale farmers
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      • Understanding Food Loss and Waste Streams
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      • 17 Shaft
      • Supporting Smallholder Farmers to Enter the Organics Sector in South Africa
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17 Mar A nation hungry for justice

Posted at 10:19h in Food, Food security, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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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...

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15 Aug A new social compact must put children at the centre of South Africa’s national development

Posted at 06:28h in Food security, Food Systems, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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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...

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28 Nov Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition

Posted at 17:09h in Food security, Hunger, Smallholder Farmers, Vegetables by Carolyn Cramer
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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...

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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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14 Jul R3 million potato harvest gone! Joye fights to get back up

Posted at 07:28h in Agro-ecology, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger, Smallholder Farmers by Carolyn Cramer
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“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....

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30 Jun Children’s rights to nutrition must be put at the centre of food systems, conference is told

Posted at 07:55h in event, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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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....

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21 Jun A unique food and nutrition journey

Posted at 13:50h in Food Systems, Hunger by Carolyn Cramer
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Worcester was recently the location of a “learning journey” where participants gained first-hand experience of challenges in the town’s food system....

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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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