This programme explores governance structures impacting food security at multiple levels. Projects within this programme focus on strengthening local food governance, including examining multi-level and transversal governance practices and the effectiveness of food charters in engaging civil society. Work in urban food systems, including a project on national food governance, aimed at improving food safety governance at the national level and engaging with policy at both national and international levels. At a grassroots level, the CoE-FS engages with local government, communities and NGOs, including the Breede Valley and Witzenberg municipalities, the cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, the national fresh produce markets, the Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute and the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership, among others.
This programme was led by Professor Julian May (UWC), and Dr Marc Wegerif (UP) during 2023 following the retirement of Professor Bruno Losch in September, 2022. The programme consisted of four projects.
In South Africa, livelihoods of smallholder cattle farmers are constrained by a lack of appropriate production knowledge, climate change, inadequate support services, societal inequity, irrelevant pro-poor policies and inappropriate delivery of improved livestock technologies. A transdisciplinary team of local and ...
Effective management of waste and the promotion and management of recycling activities are necessary for sustainable and liveable cities. A key but unrecognised element in promoting recycling is the efforts of waste pickers who make a living from recycling mainline ...
The paper explores one aspect of the food security question, namely the livelihoods of farmworkers, which ultimately speaks to the sustainability of farms and the provision of food. It focuses on the emergence of locally made private social codes (Wine ...
UWC-based Professor Julian May is the director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS), director of the...
ReadThis programme aims to build livelihoods and food security in the food...
The spectrum of work covered by this programme includes an exploration of...
In addition, the UNESCO Chair in African Food Systems held by CoE-FS...