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Join Us for A Day of Reflection on the Refugee/Migrant Experience Date: 30th November 2024Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pmVenue: Community House, 41 Salt River Rd, Salt River, Cape Town In light of recent events, including the controversial police operations sealing off illegal underground mines and the food poisoning scare…

Join us for the online launch of “The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism” on Monday, 25th November 2024, at 3 pm SAST (UTC+2). This essential new book reveals how the global push for sustainability often perpetuates colonial exploitation under a “green” guise, as wealthier nations extract critical resources from the Global…

Calling for a Justice-Centred approach to Sustainability “The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism” dives into a critical, thought-provoking issue: how today’s global push for environmental sustainability, instead of reversing colonial and capitalist injustices, often intensifies them. Edited by Miriam Lang, Mary Ann Manahan, and Breno Bringel, the book asserts that the…

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Award=winning filmmaker Nadine Cloete presents her documentary Action Kommandant at the Liviing Rights Festival…

The Living Rights Festival, screens ‘Pathways to Light’, and episode from Enver Samuel’s gound breaking new series ‘Truth Be Told’ at Bertha House Cinema, on 30th October 2024…

A selection of John Adam Barrow’s work from his series “Space-Time: A Meta-narrative for the Metacrisis” will be on view at the Living Rights Exhibition at Bertha House on 25th and 26th October 2024.…

Living Sounds- a concert for solidarity and unity. Organised by the Cape Cultural Collective (CCC) and Jazz in the Native Yards(JNY) as part of the Living Rights Festival.…

FRIDAY, 25 OCTOBER 2024 VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION 09:00 – 19:00 ZARA NEWMAN * JOHN BARROW * VELILE SOHA * SONGEZO ZANTSI Get an intimate look at the exhibition with a guided walkabout led by the artists themselves. This is your chance to hear directly from Zara Newman, John Barrow, Velile…

You’re Invited to the Living Rights Festival: Bertha House Weekend! Step into a world where art and activism collide! Join us on Friday, 25 October, and Saturday, 26 October 2024, for an unforgettable weekend at Bertha House, Cape Town. Over two days, we’ll celebrate the powerful voices and creative energy…

Dateline Africa A focus on the food-security crisis By Martin Nicol 1 June 2023 to 30 September 2024 This Special Issue of New Agenda focuses on food systems in Africa amid the current and worsening food security crisis resulting from a multiplicity of causes, some of which stem from the…

Affordable, accessible, healthy Urban consumer knowledge and the use of indigenous food By Nokuthula Vilakazi For many residents in peri-urban areas, the price of essential healthy food items in supermarkets is unaffordable. At the same time, the more affordable informal markets tend to offer highly processed foods with low nutritional…

Big data in the food supply chain The technological, organisational and environmental factors that play a role By Osden Jokonya and Jade Taff The fourth industrial revolution has redesigned the future of food production and transformed the food supply chain. This advancement and evolution of digitalisation has enabled organisations to…

Food systems transformation in Zimbabwe Effectiveness of participatory monitoring and evaluation By Joseph Tinarwo, Vain D.B Jarbandhan and Aaram Gwiz The usefulness of participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in food systems transformation in Africa remains poorly explored. JOSEPH TINARWO, VAIN JARBANDHAN and AARAM GWIZA explain how PM&E is designed to…

Participatory selection and ranking of farm-level sustainability indicators Evidence from the horticulture production system of Eritrea By Bereket T. Haile, Andrew J. Dougill and Abel Ramoelo Measuring agricultural sustainability requires operational definitions and customised indicators, which should ideally be tailored to each country’s context and reflect the full participation of…