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Responses to COVID-19 in South Africa: The centrality of food security

The SAUFF Trust’s executive manager, Kurt Ackermann, was invited to share some thoughts on the South African response to COVID-19 by Josh Busby for the Duck of Minerva, which focuses on world politics from an academic perspective, mainly from American institutions. Read the opinion piece.

Oranjezicht City Farm showcased as a prime example of resilience in action

GreenCape has published a resilience case study that reports on how the Oranjezicht City Farm (OZCF), a non-profit farming project of the SA Urban Food & Farming Trust has become a prime example of building resilient urban communities through circular food systems, creating benefits such as food waste diversion from landfill and its airspace costs,Continue reading “Oranjezicht City Farm showcased as a prime example of resilience in action”

Cape Town Shortlisted for the Food System Vision Prize

Cape Town’s submission to the Food System Vision Prize, “Resilient Food System Governance in Cape Town”, was chosen as one of 79 semi-finalists from 1,317 submitted world-wide. The SA Urban Food & Farming Trust was a partner in developing the vision, along with project leader, ICLEI Africa, The African Centre for Cities (UCT), The CityContinue reading “Cape Town Shortlisted for the Food System Vision Prize”

Urban Design Lab

The SA Urban Food & Farming Trust was co-host of a 10 day Lab that centred social urban agriculture in a programme for urban design students and researchers in integrated urbanism from Cape Town, Aachen and Stuttgart. The challenge of the Lab was to develop spatial applications for urban food gardening, drawing on themes ofContinue reading “Urban Design Lab”

Launch of the Lentegeur Market Garden

The Spring Foundation launched yesterday the expanded Lentegeur Market Garden, with Premier Helen Zille as the guest of honour. The project was established by psychiatrist Dr John Parker “to provide mental health patients with an opportunity to rebuild, reconnect and rediscover their mental and physical well-being via agricultural psychosocial rehabilitation.” The SA Urban Food &Continue reading “Launch of the Lentegeur Market Garden”