Small-scale farming collaborative gains momentum

The rethinking of food systems for South Africa needs to start with individual food producers on the ground and expand from there – as laid out in a project called “Towards recalibrating food systems during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic”, which started in October 2020.

Funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the Nedbank Green Trust and coordinated by four nongovernmental organisations, the project team is working with 108 individual food producers – predominantly women – including small-scale farmers, community gardeners and backyard/household vegetable producers in four municipal areas.