Food Hub Archives - V&A Solve

Heather 21 August 2025 Featured Posts, Ocean Cluster

Zero waste: how might we get there (or thereabouts)?

[Picture shows, left to right: Roberto de Carvalho, Petro Myburgh, Zukiswa Pikoli, Melanie Ludwig and Alison Evans on the podium at Maker’s Landing] This is human nature: we see “free” food – a hotel’s self-service breakfast options, for instance, or…

Heather 27 November 2024 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

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 to some extent, we can put back the clock, as…

nicktf 26 October 2023 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

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, CEO of the SA Urban Food and Farming Trust. Instead,…

nicktf 9 November 2021 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

In search of a food system that is just & good

In World Diabetes month we’re looking at how poverty and non-communicable diseases go together. So, just noting this here: one in eight South African adults are thought to be diabetic (here’s a clear explanation of what that means). Unless it’s…

nicktf 2 September 2021 Featured Posts, Food Cluster

We are all farmers.

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nicktf 13 August 2021 Food Cluster

V&A in the value chain

At the first Food Cluster session in April 2021, the focus was on how an entity like the V&A Waterfront, which operates at the consumption end of the food value chain, might make a positive difference to the system overall.…