Loandi Richter describes, almost dismissively, her love of music as no more than a hobby, but that nonchalance belies her not-insignificant musical achievements.
To raise awareness about the ‘invisible crisis’ of hunger and food security among students at tertiary institutions in South Africa, the Dullah Omar Institute (DOI) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), in collaboration with the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, today presented a petition to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC).
It’s a popular stereotype that governments revel in siloes.
That its officials operate in the single-minded pursuit of only their own key performance indicators. That departments barely speak to each other even when – or perhaps especially when – they are ostensibly working towards the same goals.
Thabang Msimango is one of the young women conducting cutting-edge research into food safety at the University of Pretoria.
Ashley Haywood landed in food security studies by chance, and only after taking the scenic route.
A collection of studies on the hygiene of spinach, conducted under the auspices of the Centre of Excellence in Food Security, has come up with some surprising findings.
South Africa’s complex food insecurity problems need an injection of civil society action, according to emeritus professor David Sanders.
Food research holds the key to solving the challenge of nutrition in Africa and considerable strides have been made in the area of food science and technology with the aim of developing nutritionally enhanced food that is both palatable and inexpensive to the consumer, particularly in poor areas as well as foods developed to combat diet-related non- communicable diseases such as obesity and Type-2 diabetes.