Vision, Mission & Aims
Food Security
To promote food security in South Africa, it is important to identify and learn from best-practice in this field of study. The fourteen models of excellence presented here are Impumelelo award winners and have been selected on the basis of results achieved in promoting food security for South Africans.
The projects have been organized into sections and existing food security programmes can broadly be classified as targeting one or more of the following goals:
- Reducing poverty and ensuring food availability by supporting agriculture (Chapter 4);
- Making it easier for the poor to access nutritious food by means of either community, home, and school food gardens (Chapter 5) or food banks (Chapter 6);
- Recognizing and treating those individuals who are already malnourished (Chapter 7) and/or;
- Specifically combating the cycle of HIV/ AIDS and food security (Chapter 8).
Many programmes also do important work to increase people’s understanding of what constitutes adequate nutrition. To learn from the case studies in each section, it is useful to consider how well programmes attain their goals and promote the five A’s of food security: availability, accessibility, adequacy, acceptability and action. It is also useful to consider replicating these projects to other contexts. Ultimately, protecting food security requires thinking about the entire food production chain, from growing crops and raising livestock to preparing meals in homes.
