Category: Food Cluster
Kicking off: the search for super-carrots (and other treats)

Kicking off: the search for super-carrots (and other treats)

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Sustainable Seafood: we’re (almost) ready to go!

Sustainable Seafood: we’re (almost) ready to go!

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Putting the ‘oh’ into Zero Waste

Putting the ‘oh’ into Zero Waste

Zero waste sounds daunting. What, for example, can you do with your olds sports kit when it wears thin? The shell after you’ve squeezed an orange? The cork from your...
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Sustainable seafood: looking square at the barriers (and finding solutions)

Sustainable seafood: looking square at the barriers (and finding solutions)

In South Africa’s waters, says Dr Judy Mann of the Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation, more than 2 000 species of marine fish can be found. Around 320 of these (16%)...
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Sustainable seafood: making things possible

There are, after all, not so many fish in the sea, says Michael Farquar, CEO of the Two Oceans Aquarium. We have hopelessly mismanaged the ocean and its resources. But...
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Beating the SMME odds

Beating the SMME odds

When Adri Williams bought a heavily indebted business for one rand 10 years ago, it was clearly a heart-over-head decision. But – she’s still going. Here are her pointers for...
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What do we mean, the food system is broken?

What do we mean, the food system is broken?

…And is there anything you and I can do towards fixing it? Most people, when they think about food, don’t think about it as a system, points out Kurt Ackermann,...
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SEAFOOD: WHAT DOES ‘SUSTAINABLE’ MEAN ANYWAY?

SEAFOOD: WHAT DOES ‘SUSTAINABLE’ MEAN ANYWAY?

For many of us, the 2021 Netflix documentary Seaspiracy was the beginning of the end of garlic prawns, fried hake and chips, sushi, pickled fish and any other favourite way...
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We’re climatarians!

We’re climatarians!

We’ve finally found the word that wonderfully describes our approach to food: we’re climatarians! Cambridge Dictionary defines a climatarian is someone who makes consistent choices to eat according to what...
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The surprising power you and I have to solve the climate crisis

The surprising power you and I have to solve the climate crisis

We came across this really interesting TED talk from sharing economy entrepreneur, Tessa Clarke, the brains behind the Olio app which facilitates free sharing of household “stuff”. Payoff line: It’s...
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