The Southern Africa Food Lab

29/07/2022

Only Five Food Dialogues 2022 events left!

Last chance to book! NB: Remaining event bookings close 1 day in advance.

Saturday 30 July - Dialogues through Food - Makers Landing

10am - A flavour adventure for kids and their parents with Studio H, where your kids will be equipped with new knowledge of African flavours which will enable them to invent their ultimate dish.

6pm - Ukutya Club Experience presents an African ferments session. Participants will learn the story of traditional beer umqombothi, and its role in Xhosa culture, while brewing their own batch.

Don’t forget on Saturday from 10am to 1pm Philippi Village Walking Tour

Sunday 31 July – Final Day - Dialogues through Food - Makers Landing

1pm - The day begins with a sacred dining experience, hosted by Michele Mistry of Indikaap to introduce participants to the six ayurvedic tastes, which will then be incorporated into a meal that is collectively prepared and enjoyed.

6pm - Tapi Tapi will host an African ice cream making experience, where participants will work together to create flavours from African ingredients that reveal hidden stories of the continent.

It's not too late to secure your spot visit fooddialogues.info to find out more and register!

28/07/2022

A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.

04/07/2022

How has food shaped the spaces and places that define our city?

How do cooking and eating connect us to nature, culture and spirituality?

Will the revival of indigenous food traditions reshape our food culture?

These and other questions will be explored at Food Dialogues 2022, which we are part of from Monday 18 July until Monday 1 August.

Returning to physical spaces this year, Food Dialogues is a two week programme of experiences that offer us the chance to connect with our future food shapers in person. It features a series of deep-dive talks from experts and mini-conferences on Food Shopping Futures and Feeding our Future.

Beyond these and other important serious conversations, are food events that will excite all five senses including hands-on cooking classes for grown-ups and kids, walking tours, communal meals, visual art installations and so much more.

Some events are free to attend while others are paid but all participants must register at fooddialogues.info

Register NOW!

26/05/2022

03 May “The major problem of smallholder agriculture is shrinking farm sizes and the narrow economic margins” Posted at 14:11h in Uncategorized by Carolyn Cramer 0 Likes The shrinking of farm sizes that prevents smallholder farmers to earn a living income is a major stumbling block in the future...

26/05/2022

The rethinking of food systems for South Africa needs to start with individual food producers on the ground and expand from there – as laid out in a project called “Towards recalibrating food systems during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic”, which started in October 2020. Funded by the World W...

26/05/2022

A ‘learning journey’ in Worcester explores the food system in the area and the paradox between abundant food production and food insecurity.

21/10/2021

"To secure the future and improve the present, our thinking, planning and organising should be shifted to a point where SA’s normal is a food system that revolves around the needs of children." - Scott Drimie and Yandiswa Mazwana in Business Day

SA has made no progress towards achieving the stunting target, with 27.4% of those under five years old affected

04/03/2021

Children’s needs must be at the heart of a sustainable, affordable and healthy food system. Read Scott Drimie's take on the 2020 child gauge and what must be done from last week's Sunday Times ZA here:

https://www.southernafricafoodlab.org/a-child-centred-food-system/

27/10/2020

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. Read what Food Lab chair Tatjana von Bormann has to say about it on the Daily Maverick.

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.

19/10/2020

What will it take to facilitate a more just and sustainable food system? Last week we heard the views of Community Chest of the Western Cape CEO Lorenzo Davids, WWF South Africa Programme Impact Lead, Tatjana von Bormann, and UCT Graduate School of Business Professor, Ralph Hamann. Hear their views here:

Series Theme: Justice, Human Rights and Development Community Chest and Southern Africa Food Lab Conversation Three: What Will it Take to Transform the Food ...

02/10/2020

SIGN UP NOW! Our next Food Systems Webinar with The Southern Africa Food Lab - 'What Will it Take to Transform the Food System? Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic' - is on 16 October.

Register here now -https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xgihr76XRNWjTb6bSTaLTA

30/09/2020

Join us as we partner with Community Chest of the Western Cape for our latest Food Systems Webinar: What Will it Take to Transform the Food System? Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

In this webinar featuring
- Lorenzo Davids (CEO Community Chest),
- Tatjana Von Bormann (WWF: Programme Impact Lead and Chairperson: Southern Africa Food Lab) and
- Ralph Hamann (Professor at UCT GSB and Advisory Board member: Southern Africa Food Lab)
we explore what thoughts, actions and capacities are required to enable us to build a more equitable food system.

Register here:

Series Theme: Justice, Human Rights and Development Community Chest and Southern Africa Food Lab Conversation Three: What Will it Take to Transform the Food System? Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic? In this webinar we explore what thoughts, actions and capacities are required to enable us to build...