Finding a way forward for the South African food system
by Prof. Julian May, Director: NRF-DST Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of the Western Cape The…
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The United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the instructive lessons that can be drawn from FAO’s 1960s Freedom from Hunger Campaign
by Glen Ncube, University of Pretoria As a global socio-medical problem, nutrition has had a complex history. Since the humanitarian…
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Cultures and Cuisines: A Peek at Our Early History
By Robert Kriger On Mandela day, 18 July 2018, Renata Coetzee’s celebrated book – A Feast From Nature – was…
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Regulating Food Waste in the City
By Dr Suzall Timm Regulating Food Waste in the City Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Food Studies,…
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Food Studies and the Pitfalls of Interdisciplinarity
By Prof Desiree Lewis Much of my work on food has focused on how it is spoken about and discursively…
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Food and “Excess” in Rome
By Prof Desiree Lewis This is the first post in the Reflections on Food, Fun and Culture in Rome where…
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Food as a Personal and Political Encounter
by Angelo Fick This post features Angelo Fick talk at The Future (s) of Food panel discussion hosted by Food…
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“Decolonising Food Systems and Sowing Seeds of Resistance.”
By Donna Andrews and Desiree Lewis (Revised) Article published by the African Centre for Biodiversity Introduction It is often observed…
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Some Everyday Rituals Around Food and Eating: A Conversation about Pickled Fish
By Donna Andrews and Suzall Timm Particular foods carry very poignant and profound meanings – about spaces, emotions, relationship and…
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Bodies, Matter and Feminist Freedoms: Revisiting the Politics of Food
By Desiree Lewis Desiree Lewis is Principal Researcher on the Food Politics and Cultures Project, funded by the Mellon Foundation…
