The SA Urban Food & Farming Trust works through food and farming to strengthen South Africa’s urban communities and the ecosystems that sustain them.
The SA Urban Food & Farming Trust supports over 1400 farmers in marginalised urban communities, hosts the annual Food Indaba reaching an audience of over 122 million, operates the Oranjezicht City Farm, develops grassroots leaders with catalytic potential, and works through pan-African collaborations in food systems transformation across 15 African cities.
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Our Mission
Stronger urban communities through food and farming
In one of the most unequal societies in the world, facing the impacts of climate crisis, the persistent legacy of apartheid and the discontinuities from ever more digital lives, South Africa’s urban communities are socially, ecologically and economically fragile. The SAUFF Trust supports collaborative urban food gardens, social farms and markets, uses them to build socially, ecologically and economically resilient communities in cities, and scale the impacts.
More specifically, the Trust seeks to:
- Strengthen and build intra- and inter-community social cohesion
- Improve household food and nutrition security
- Conserve and protect natural urban ecosystems
- Strengthen collective agency within communities
- Humanise built urban environments
How We Work
Support – partnering with existing organisations and social entrepreneurs to strengthen households, community food gardens and food hubs, and the links between them. The SAUFF Trust provides training, mentoring, networking, market access, fundraising and other support as part of its partnership approach.
Innovation – with our partners the SAUFF Trust conceptualises, designs, tests, conducts research and pilots innovative programmes, methods, models, and principles that can improve outcomes and scale impacts, substantiated by reliable data.
Advocacy – through communications programmes and events, workshops, networking, facilitation and other forms of stakeholder engagement the SAUFF Trust raises awareness, facilitates conversations, and motivates policy changes and shifts in social norms.
Please see the Projects page for details.
Leadership
Kurt Ackermann is chief executive of the SA Urban Food & Farming Trust.
Rirhandzu Marivate is programme manager of the SA Urban Food & Farming Trust.
Our History
Established in August 2014, the SAUFF Trust (Registered Trust IT20812/2014) is a non-profit public benefit organisation (PBO 930052666) with Section 18a status from the SA Revenue Service (SARS), allowing it to issue certificates for tax deductions in return for donations received.
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