Food for the Next Generation

The Food Security Initiative contributes to the emergence of a resilient, sustainable food system for Southern Africa, by reconceptualising the food security challenge, and creating new models of practice in the food system, through the integration of findings from in depth research on key issues in the food value chain, collaboration across disciplinary boundaries, capacity building and systematic impact assessment. The three key focus areas of the initiative are:

1)      Sustainable production for safe and nutritious food

2)      Utilisation of safe and nutritious food

3)      Post-harvest optimization

e-newsletter

Our most recent e-newsletter is available here FSI newsletter_September 2011

Interdisciplinary discussion group

Our most recent discussion group took place on Monday May 14, 2012.  The speakers were Kenneth Charles Mbwanji with the assistance of his supervisor Prof Anna-Maria Botha Oberholster.  Kenneth discussed the fascinating results of his Masters thesis project which is focused on developing more drought resistant strains of wheat using induced mutagenesis. For a copy of his presentation, see the link below.

Improvement of Heat Tolerance in Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Using Induced Mutagenesis

For all previous presentations please refer to the ‘archive’ page. This page serves as a resource of all previous presentations including those from Symposiums.

Recent and upcoming events

The first combined symposium entitled “Working towards a Food Secure South Africa was held on  26th October 2011 and was a great day of many different parties coming together, sharing knowledge and discussing how we can better work together towards the task of a food secure South Africa. The day was hosted by Stellenbosch Univerity, UCT, UWC and CPUT at the CPUT campus. The programme for the day along with the two posters that were not on the free CD are available below.  If you would like any of the other posters that were shown on the day please feel free to contact Julia Harper at  jrs@sun.ac.za .

Programme_Combined Food Security Symposium 2001

Olivier et al_symposium poster

Food Security Symposium Poster – Pleiad Foundation

consumer protection act_Food symposium 2011

Food Symposium Urban challenges presentation

The FSI forms part of an international consortium on Food Security. This group met recently in Singapore and a press release pertaining to the event is available here;Press Release GlCoFS

On the 29th October 2010 the FSI had its first symposium.  The slides and additional material are available on the ‘archives’ page.

The Food Security Initiative is part of the HOPE Project at the University of Stellenbosch, see www.thehopeproject.co.za or www.diehoopprojek.co.za/vsi