Traditional Food Systems Nourish Communities and Protect the Environment: Lessons From South Africa's Amadiba

South Africa: Traditional Food Systems Nourish Communities and Protect the Environment - Lessons From South Africa's Amadiba

Analysis - The global food system contributes to multiple planetary crises - and is vulnerable to them. Climate change, other ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality are all linked to food.

Traditional food systems nourish communities and protect the environment: Lessons from South Africa's Amadiba

The global food system contributes to multiple planetary crises—and is vulnerable to them. Climate change, other ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality are all linked to food.

Traditional food systems nourish communities and protect the environment: lessons from South Africa’s Amadiba

The global food system contributes to multiple planetary crises – and is vulnerable to them. Climate change, other ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality are all linked to food. Malnutrition and rising levels of diet-related diseases are also related to this food system, in which transnational food corporations pursue profits at the expense of human health and the environment. Read more: Industrial scale farming is flawed: what ec…

Traditional food systems nourish communities and protect the environment: lessons from South Africa's Amadiba

The Amadiba community in South Africa holds fast to traditional farming. They have also withstood pressure to mine their land.