24 Nov Covid-19 relief grant misses the mark for children
More than seven million caregivers and 13 million children have been plunged deeper into poverty as payouts of the R500 caregiver grant top-up ended in October....
27 Oct Covid-19 has taught us we cannot separate social from environmental justice
With more than 200 days of lockdown disruptions under our belts, many of us have found that our understanding of the world in which we live has shifted and we don’t want to return to (ab)normal, nor should we....
19 Oct What Will it Take to Transform the Food System? Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
What thoughts, actions and capacities are required to build a more equitable food system in SA. We hear from Community Chest CEO, Lorenzo Davids, WWF Programme Impact Lead, Tatjana von Bormann and UCT Professor, Ralph Hamann. ...
16 Oct Building a sustainable food system for SA post-COVID
The immediate impacts of the COVID-19 public health crisis and the lockdown imposed from 27 March 2020 revealed the deep fragility of the South African food system. This disruption has clearly led to a period of deep uncertainty and change, but has also created an...
05 Oct Food Systems Webinar: What Will it Take to Transform the Food System? Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
What will it take to transform the food system? Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us on Friday 16 October 11:00-12:00 as we explore what thoughts, actions and capacities are required in order to build a more equitable food system....
20 Aug Webinar: The Crucial Intersection Between Human and Planetary Health
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Yesterday (19 August 2020) the Food Lab together with Community Chest co-hosted a webinar considering the link between human and planetary health. Marcelle Mentor (from Columbia University) highlighted the critical importance of education when it comes to nutrition and noted that food insecurity is not...
04 Aug WEBINAR: The crucial intersection between human and planetary health – can COVID-19 be used to catalyse a better future?
Register now for our upcoming webinar hosted in partnership with Community Chest. ...
03 Aug World Breastfeeding Week – Why do many South African women not breastfeed?
Dr Chantell Witten is currently based at the University of the Free State, Faculty of Health Sciences in the division for Health Professions Education. She is a dietitian by profession and training focusing specifically on infant and young child nutrition. She completed her PHD at the...
20 Jul Hunger mounting as study reveals starving children ‘eat wild plants’
A new study suggests that a disturbing number of Eastern Cape households are going hungry, having run out of money to eat in April In Peddie in the Eastern Cape, children are eating wild plants to survive, as the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown take their...
30 Jun Lessons from a food systems webinar: food, energy and water
“Understanding the complex and dynamic interrelationships between water, energy and food will enable cities to manage resources sustainably.” – Sandra Boatemaa, Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (Stellenbosch University). Systems-thinking means shifting narratives to include experiences that are otherwise overlooked. A circular approach accounts for the...