National and global food systems are not working for the billions around the world who suffer from hunger...

On World Food Day (16 October), academics and activists will debate and share insights on the impact of...

The basic income grant has become a topical issue now. There are questions as to whether it could...

People are hungry, it’s time for the South African government to remove the bureaucratic red tape limiting access...

A long and hard conversation about a basic income grant, or BIG, is looming for South Africa. expanding...

The impact of the COVID-19 on the vulnerable was discussed in a webinar hosted by the Centre of...

Researchers and academics have called on government to do better in the implementation of social safety net interventions....

Some NGO’s want the government to make the Covid-19 emergency relief measures permanent from October, especially the one...

Social protection experts have called on the South African government to make the COVID-19 emergency relief measures permanent...

It has become apparent that women around the world are, as a ripple effect from persistent systemic inequities,...

A virtual dialogue looking at the important issues surrounding food security pre- and post-Covid-19, has revealed that women...

Sofia Sprechmann of humanitarian organisation Care International didn’t mince any words when she recently wrote on the impact...

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the spotlight on the importance of the informal economy as a means of...

Of the three million people who lost their jobs in South Africa, two thirds of those were women,...

The Centre of Excellence in Food Security is hosting a series of 2020 Women’s Month Webinars over August,...

The loss of jobs and desperately needed revenue to the state resulting from Covid-19-related restrictions will negatively impact...

Across the world, COVID-19 has persuaded people to think more carefully about changing their behaviour.  We need the...

Programme manager wanted for a pilot programme that will see a consortium of partners unite to deliver a...

The government has come in for a tongue-lashing over its “inappropriate” COVID-19 regulations, with one of the country’s...

If SA wants to achieve food and nutrition sustainability, agriculture policies will need to shift away from chemical...

A panel of experts debate the universal income grant with Business Day TV’s Michael Avery.

The Food Dialogues: Cape Town 2020 initiative, which takes place until 14 August 2020, is set to focus...

On Monday 13 July the Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu, unexpectedly let a BIG cat out of...

On Monday 13 July the Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu, unexpectedly let a BIG cat out of...

As countries and citizens across world navigate through the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic – including its impacts...

The massive mobilisation of civil society organisations across the Western Cape in the first six weeks of the...

A hunger catastrophe was averted in the country thanks to civil organisations that distributed food parcels to those...

Food production and logistics were among the star performers during the Covid-19 lockdown. Despite the initial panic buying,...

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the authorities grapple with how to assure safe food production...

People are hungry, it’s time for the South African government to remove the bureaucratic red tape limiting access...

There is no data to support the theory that child malnutrition is increasing or decreasing yet. But experts...

Although there is no specific research that shows the positive effects of high-fibre foods in helping to fight...

Vulnerable households are struggling to put food on the table as the government lockdown puts their livelihoods on...

If food insecurity is also about access and utilisation, local government is as much a part of the...

As the lockdowns continue, the situation is threatening to evolve from a public health emergency into a full-blown...

Covid-19 lockdowns across the world have unleashed a range of unintended consequences, sparking a global economic crisis that...

University of Pretoria (UP) academic, Dr Marc Wegerif, is calling on the government to provide emergency relief for...

Many vendors suffered the loss of stock as police confiscated their merchandise following initial regulations barring informal food...

Food insecurity is a reality for many South African households. Food aid parcels will see may households through...

Cash grants will allow money to be ploughed back into the informal economy, because food vouchers and parcels...

Julian May, professeur rattaché à l’Université du Cap-Occidental, au Cap, note que plusieurs familles ont pu survivre dans...

Discussions about the schooling program for the rest of the year are still underway, but the majority of...

The proposal comes from the Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of the Western Cape,...

Don’t panic. The country has sufficient food supplies. Experts say the empty food shelves you have been observing...

South Africa bought time by slowing the spread of the virus; but an abrupt end to the lockdown...

Using local and community contexts may offer a way forward both to restarting the economy and building resilient...

A place-based approach, which considers local and community contexts, may offer a way forward, both to re-opening the...

Unsurprisingly, confinement has once again highlighted the very strong inequalities in South African society.

Several violent protests have broken out across the country over access to food parcels handed out by authorities.

Unrest has spread across Africa. Riots have erupted in Cape Town over food shortages and the army has...

COVID-19 threatens child nutrition. The current lockdown in South Africa starkly illustrates the many ways in which children’s...

Covid-19 is a public health crisis, caused by a virus. But the response to Covid-19, while necessary, is...

The extension of the lockdown in South Africa by two weeks, while necessary, is creating an economic crisis...

It’s not just children already born who are at risk. During the 21 days of the current lockdown,...

Poor and vulnerable South Africans, including domestic, farm, service sector, and self-employed workers as well as children from...

On Monday evening, when President Ramaphosa announced a 21-day national lockdown to disrupt the spread of COVID-19, he...

As South Africa prepares to shut down for 21 days to counter the rapid spread of COVID-19, promises...