Start your own farming enterprise or food growing initiative

Mar 14, 2023

Have you ever traversed the lush-green avocado orchards of Limpopo, the never-ending cornfields of the Orange Free State or the romantic vineyards of the Western Cape and felt the urge to also have “green fingers” and start your own farming enterprise? Now you can...

Langa learning journey

Oct 28, 2022

in event, Food, Food security, Food Systems, Hunger, Smallholder Farmers The Food Lab in partnership with the provincial Nourish to Flourish working group, the Centre of Excellence in Food Security, and the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership,...

Understanding Worcester’s food system through learning journeys

May 18, 2022

The Western Cape Economic Development Partnership (EDP) and the  (SAFL) have joined forces with the to help disseminate the findings of a place-based research project led by professors Julian May and Bruno Losch. The team will lead a series of ‘Learning Labs’ which...

Hop harvest provides jobs, stimulates George economy

Mar 25, 2022

For the residents of George in the Western Cape, agriculture is an economic lifeline. This is especially true during the six-week hop harvest season which is said to create over 1 500 jobs and injects a revenue of R90 million into the area. George is the only area in...