How can collaboration ensure public spaces are designed and managed for all in African cities? Published: 20 February 2023 A series of reflections on urban public spaces with support from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Western Cape Economic Development Partnership
Livestock and Maize at Sharp Edge of Climate Emergency in Southern Africa Published: 10 November 2021 Southern Africa is warming at twice the rate of the global average. Worsening drought and rising temperatures are likely to bring about a collapse of two keystone agricultural activities — livestock and maize farming — warns the latest climate science, presented in the long-awaited United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) new report. Leonie Joubert
The Corporate Capture of the UN Food Summit Published: 20 September 2021 Article Transnational agribusiness firms are contributing to a growing global hunger crisis, causing widespread environmental damage, and threatening people’s health. By also capturing the United Nations Food Systems Summit, they have restricted the meeting's agenda to solutions that will further inflate corporate profits. Sofia Monsalve
What COVID-19 Revealed About Hunger Published: 20 September 2021 Article The pandemic has shown the importance of community-based initiatives in fighting food insecurity. Unfortunately, when the United Nations Food Systems Summit convenes this month, few voices of those most affected by hunger will be at the table. Brittany Kesselman
Transforming Cape Town’s COVID Soup Kitchens Into Spaces of Dignity – A Community Vision Published: 17 September 2021 Article Can community kitchens play a role in moving our approaches to hunger beyond the binary of ‘charity’ and ‘market’? Sanelisiwe Nyaba, Haidee Swanby, Stefanie Lemke
The Food Series: 10 Short Films on South Africa’s Food System Published: 15 September 2021 Video Ten short documentaries that illustrate the flaws of South Africa’s food system, exposed through the COVID-19 pandemic. Available for download and screening.
Uphakantoni: What’s Being Dished Up? Published: 15 September 2021 Podcast The first podcast from our friends at the Food Agency Cape Town (FACT), reflecting on the stigma of hunger and the potential of community kitchens to transform a commodity fixated food system.
Land-Food-Climate: Climate Resilience Through the Right to Food Published: 15 September 2021 Event FACT co-founder Nomonde Buthelezi will speak alongside international experts and other speakers to share perspectives on the UN Food Systems Summit.
Recent Unrest in South Africa: Democracy Fails Without Care Published: 16 July 2021 Statement HBF Cape Town Office If there is one thing that 27 years of raising this democracy has taught us, it is that genuinely democratic institutions cannot stand or flourish in landscapes of injustice. Now is precisely the time to build a state that cares for the many, not the few.
How Organic Farmer Nazeer Sonday Became an Accidental Warrior for Land Reform and Ecological Justice Published: 26 February 2021 What began as a hyperlocal movement to protect the interests of emerging and commercial farmers, farmworkers and informal settlement residents in Cape Town’s Philippi Horticultural Area has become a much bigger campaign.
Soil and Land in the Philippi Horticultural Area Published: 23 October 2020 The struggle to preserve this resource for residents of the Cape Flats to farm and feed themselves is about protecting it from development and nurturing the richness it offers.
Victory in court for Philippi Horticultural Area Published: 20 February 2020 With findings that neither the City of Cape Town nor the provincial government considered the full impact of development on the Cape Flats Aquifer in the Philippi Horticultural Area, the Cape High Court has sent two crucial decisions back for a second look.
This is Not Resilience, it is Foolishness Published: 25 September 2019 Multimedia On Friday 20th September, thousands of South Africans joined the global climate strike to register their objections to the continuing destruction of the planet. Among them was HBF partner the Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign (PHAFFC) who are fighting to reverse a series of land use decisions that will render Cape Town anything but food, climate and water resilient.
Climate Change Linked Drought Drives Karoo to Collapse Published: 25 June 2019 Analysis Southern Africa is heating at 2°C per century, twice the global average. In the Northern Cape, as elsewhere, Climate change is no longer a future event, but a daily reality. Since 2015, a climate change induced drought has wrought devastating economic, social and political consequences: agriculture is collapsing, and both emerging and commercial farmers are abandoning their farms. Delime Cupido, Tristen Taylor
Future proofing Cape Town's food supply Published: 9 May 2019 #SADecides In South Africa, a severe water crisis, fuelled by climate change, laid bare the hyperbole of “a well-run, global best practices, World Design Capital bla bla” Cape Town. Instead of relying on window dressing, Cape Town should learn from cities that are serious about climate change mitigation and adaptation. Nazeer Sonday argues that we have the farmers, and a population concerned about its food. What we lack is political leadership. Nazeer A Sonday
