Southern Africa Food Lab | Land Portal
Focal point: 
Scott Drimie

Location

Stellenbosch University
South Africa
ZA
Postal address: 
Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch, Western Cape
Working languages: 
English

The Southern Africa Food Lab (Food Lab) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that grapples with questions around food systems in southern Africa to foster long-term food security in the region. The initiative brings together diverse, influential stakeholders in the regional food system in order to respond to systemic issues in creative ways and to inspire change in how we think about and act on complex social challenges. The Food Lab facilitates dialogue between these stakeholders to bring about collaborative learning, foster innovations and experimental action towards a just and sustainable food system.

Southern Africa Food Lab Resources

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Library Resource

How and why the Toolkit was developed, and lessons learnt from its application in the Mopani and Umkhanyakude districts in South Africa

Training Resources & Tools
August, 2016
South Africa

This document provides an introduction to the Smallholder Farmer Market Segmentation Toolkit produced by the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) and the Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) during 2014 and 2015.

Library Resource

Compiled for small holder farmers and trainers in South Africa

Training Resources & Tools
July, 2016
Southern Africa

This manual provides a short history of localg.a.p. and its entry into South Africa and provides information for trainers providing support to small holder farmers who want to achieve localg.a.p. compliance. 

Library Resource

June 2015 - February 2016, Mopani district of Limpopo, South Africa

Reports & Research
June, 2016
South Africa

Between late 2014 and June 2016, South Africa experienced an El Niño-related drought, which various reports claim to be the worst meteorological drought in the southern Africa region in 35 years. In February 2016, the Southern Africa Food Lab (SAFL) commissioned a drought impact assessment (DIA) in the Mopani district of Limpopo province, as part of its Agro-ecology Awareness (AeA) project, and Supporting Smallholder Agriculture programme. This report provides the findings of this assessment.

Library Resource

Workshop held at STIAS, Stellenbosch on the 25 and February 2016

Reports & Research
February, 2016
South Africa

This is a report from a workshop organised by the Southern Africa Food LAB (SAFL) in collabora?on with Solidaridad Southern Africa, and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to develop a set of entry level standard principles; and an integrated environmental, ethical, and social market standard for smallholder farmers.

Library Resource

Towards a scenario based dialogue: Four Transformative Scenarios examining possible futures of the food system in South Africa

Reports & Research
December, 2015
South Africa

What is the future of food in South Africa? What might the food system look like in 2030, in terms of production, processing, distribution and consumption? Many people are asking similar questions and producing vision statements, policies and forecasts to enable anticipation and planning in a volatile system. They are all telling stories about the future – some optimistic, some dire. But these stories tend to be disconnected, narrated past each other to different audiences. The four scenarios contained in this document tell a more connected set of stories.

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