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....
28 Nov Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition
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...
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. ...
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....
14 Jul How not to do climate change adaptation — the sad case of the Bertrams Inner City Farm
The thriving — or destruction — of one solitary urban farm is a relative blip in our overall trajectory to a climate-resilient country. But the destruction of the Bertrams Inner City Farm highlights deep concerns about our holistic response to the climate crisis....
16 May Thirty farmers in Inchanga aim to supply vegetables locally
The average household food basket in South Africa increases by R354.22 or 8.9% (February 2022 statistic) and food prices continue to rise. The food poverty line is now R624.00 per month and the child support grant is R460.00 per month. Every year the poverty indices...
07 Apr A look at how these 30 farmers are trying to feed their communities
The Woza Nami (‘come with me’) project focuses on strengthening healthy food production and nutrition awareness through the scaling of vegetable farming in informal settlements based on agroecological practice....
04 Aug SYSTEMS APPROACHES TO FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY AND URBAN RESILIENCE
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in Blog, Covid-19, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger, Smallholder Farmers, webinar
COVID-19 has revealed the deep fragility of the African food system and brought to the fore prevailing systemic injustices. Some indications suggest that as many as 34% of people in South Africa have gone to bed hungry during the lockdown. In Ghana disrupted food supply chains...
28 Jul Female farmer from Khayelitsha goes viral with fresh spinach
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in Agro-ecology, Blog, Covid-19, Food, Food security, Food Systems, Smallholder Farmers, Vegetables
A female farmer from Khayelitsha made headlines recently after advertising her fresh spinach on social media. by Erene Oberholzer A 27-year-old female farmer from Khayelitsha in Cape Town recently went viral in South Africa after wanting to ‘feed the nation one spinach at a time’. Yes, Ncumisa Mkabile went...
01 Jul VIDEO: Exploring place-based approaches as response to local contexts for recalibrating resilient food systems
On 11 June 2020, members of the Food Lab advisory board discussed how the impacts of the Covid-19 public health crisis has revealed the deep fragility of the South African food system. There has clearly been a disruption, presenting a period of deep uncertainty and change,...