Food security

Protecting the precious Philippi aquifer

If we stop producing, there’ll be empty shelves in the shops, say vegetable farmers

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Photo Essay | 30 October 2017

City’s food basket faces uncertain future

The Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign have taken the City’s rezoning decision for judicial review

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News | 27 October 2017

Farmers speak out against new plant bills

Pending legislation will have a devastating effect if made into law, claim small scale producers

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News | 26 September 2017

Backyard veggie gardens put food on the table

Zimbabwean turns from teaching marketing to marketing vegetables

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News | 18 September 2017

Meet Khayelitsha’s guerilla gardeners

Ujamaa encourages people to be less dependent on supermarkets for food

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News | 17 July 2017

Meet Einstein Sibanda and his free-range chicken farm

“I have had a passion for farming since secondary school”

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News | 27 June 2017

Khayelitsha soup kitchen feeds dozens of people weekly

“People are hungry out there” says founder

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News | 7 February 2017

“Locals are in love with spinach” says gardener

Zimbabwean widow grows hard to access fresh vegetables in PE

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News | 20 December 2016

Vegetable garden faces chop for being too ‘untidy’

"Not in our backyard," say library staff

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News | 25 October 2016

Women in Ruyterwacht help evicted and vulnerable

“This is a new South Africa, a South Africa for everybody, a South Africa of change, a South Africa to uplift our people. So what is happening here?”

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News | 23 September 2016

Drought leaves women farmers open to exploitation

In Mozambique, women are caught between jealous absent husbands, money lenders and corrupt local chiefs

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News | 14 September 2016

Making gardens in Khayelitsha’s sandy soil

Ekasi Green Project shares its vegetables and knowledge with the community

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News | 14 June 2016

Bureaucratic budget leaves school kids hungry

Nutrition programme stretched at many schools classified as less poor

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News | 18 May 2016

Zimbabweans make thriving farm on abandoned land

Land-owner on N7 bet them that it was unprofitable

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News | 4 May 2016

Bishop Lavis woman hands out food parcels to the needy

Residents queue from 6am

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News | 26 February 2016