A food sovereignty movement has emerged in Sada, Eastern Cape, dedicated to creating an empowering and supportive environment for small-scale farmers. This initiative aims to establish community-led food production systems and local produce markets, fostering self-sufficiency and promoting sustainable agriculture. This is thanks to the work of Fellows like Nangamso Ka NomaHlubi Koza and several partners including the provincial Department of Education. Through the Kwankqubela Pilot Project, they ensured that farmers in the semi-rural areas acquired resources like knowledge, skills and food production tools.
This will in turn filter through their lives and impact their families positively. The project has had an invaluable impact.
“There are six big gardens inside the [Ntabelanga Senior Primary] school, where we trained the farmers and they went back and did the same thing back home, where they also adopted other families to do their gardens. The whole point for us was to address food insecurity but most importantly promote food sovereignty,” said Nangamso.
When the project started, none of the other seven schools in the community had gardens. By the end of 2023, three more schools had started their food gardens, and/or revamped those that had been utilised years back.
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