- Title
- Food for us: reducing food waste, supporting social learning, creating value
- Creator
- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Ward, Mike, Jenkin, Nicola P, Tantsi, Thato
- Subject
- Environmental education -- South Africa
- Subject
- Environmental education -- Study and teaching -- South Africa
- Type
- Instructional and educational works
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70859
- Identifier
- vital:29754
- Identifier
- 978-0-620-82216-9
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.21504/10962/70859
- Description
- An estimated third of the 29 million tons of food produced annually in South Africa goes to waste (Oelofse, 2014). Fifty percent of this waste (by mass) occurs during the agricultural production and post-harvest handling and storage stages (von Bormann et al., 2017). At the same time 13 million South Africans routinely experience hunger, with malnutrition a serious concern for early childhood development (StatsSA, 2018). This disconnect between the need for food and the food that is available for consumption but being wasted, has profound social, environmental and economic impacts. This, in turn, suggests that there must be opportunities to create social, environmental and economic value through innovative and transformative initiatives that link food producers with food consumers in South Africa, particularly those in need. Food for Us is a sustainable food systems mobile phone learning pilot project initiated in 2017 by a consortium of partners in South Africa working with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme within the One Planet Network. The intention was to design and develop a mobile application (app) that could help reduce on-farm food surplus, while also supporting social learning. The initial phase of the project was 18 months. This publication shares what has been learned and can also be considered a springboard for the potential that is possible.
- Format
- pdf, 40 pages, electronic, application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Foodforus
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)" License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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