The events of 2020 highlighted the importance of the research and capacity development that is undertaken by the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS). The unprecedented measures put in place to slow the pace of new infections of COVID-19 had an immediate and direct impact on household food security.
Overall, the access and utilisation dimensions of food and nutrition security may be compromised into the future. Long-lasting structural changes seem likely due to the jobs and livelihoods that have been lost: food price increases arising both from speculation, increased costs and value-chain disruptions; and changes in diet and lifestyles due to mobility and financial constraints.
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CoE-FS Annual Report 2022 (Full Version)
It has been almost a decade since the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS) was launched, with the vision “to become a global leader in research, capacity building, and knowledge brokerage and service provision in food security and nutrition in Africa”. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, the University of Pennsylvania’s ‘...
CoE-FS Annual Report 2021
In 2021, the extension of the State of Disaster, additional waves of COVID-19 infections and the emergence of the Omicron variant continued to shape both the research environment of the CoE-FS as well as global, national and local food systems. In our 2021 Annual Progress Report, we document the work of the ...
CoE-FS Annual Report 2019
In 2019 the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), National Research Foundation (NRF), and the Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS) concluded the process of responding to the recommendations arising from the mid-term review. This Annual Report reflects on the achievements, challenges and the lessons learnt from this process while ...