This year’s World Food Day theme asks us to innovate today to nourish tomorrow. But in Cape Town’s townships, some of the most sophisticated food innovation is already here, being tested daily by farmers and foragers whose expertise food policy rarely takes seriously. Expertise policy doesn’t recognise Food policy debates tend to default to aContinue reading “Innovate Today, Nourish Tomorrow? The answer might already be growing in Cape Town, South Africa”
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Food Indaba 2026: What we learned when we put water at the centre of the food system
From 20 July to 2 August, Food Indaba 2026 brought people together across Cape Town to explore a question that is at once obvious and easy to overlook: what happens when we understand water and food as parts of the same system? This year’s theme — Rivers, Oceans, Aquifers and Rainfall (ROAR) — provided aContinue reading “Food Indaba 2026: What we learned when we put water at the centre of the food system”
Empowering Urban Farmers Through Wellness and Indigenous Knowledge: The EESI Programme’s Impact in Khayelitsha
A year-long programme aimed at improving the health, well-being, and economic resilience of urban farmers in Khayelitsha showed promising results. The Environmental Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation (EESI) initiative, which ran from April 2024 to March 2025, brought together over two dozen participants, primarily women and backyard farmers, to reimagine nutrition, biodiversity, and entrepreneurship through targetedContinue reading “Empowering Urban Farmers Through Wellness and Indigenous Knowledge: The EESI Programme’s Impact in Khayelitsha”
Climate crisis and biodiversity podcast episode with Kurt Ackermann, SAUFFT CEO
Podcast host, Joel Bolnick, founder and prime mover of the new Ros Bean Biodiversity and Mindfulness Centre in Cape Town, is in conversation with SAUFFT CEO, Kurt Ackermann. Joel was the co-founder of Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) and the Community Organisation Resource Centre (CORC), and a leader deeply committed to social and environmental justice. ThisContinue reading “Climate crisis and biodiversity podcast episode with Kurt Ackermann, SAUFFT CEO”
