Training

28 04, 2017

Collective learning to live with wicked climate problems through water and seed for food sovereignty: leaving no one (willing) behind.

2017-09-15T10:20:31+02:00April 28th, 2017|Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

Smallholder farmers in the Amathole District of the Eastern Cape Province have demonstrated that it is possible to mobilise their cultural and traditional knowledge practices to make a living from the soil. They have managed to do this through collaboration with agricultural and further education and training (FET) colleges, developing water for food production, and […]

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10 04, 2017

Amanzi for Food presented at the Partnership for Action on Green Economy global inter-ministerial meeting in Germany

2017-04-10T07:27:45+02:00April 10th, 2017|Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

On the 27th of March 2017, Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka presented the work we have done over the last few years with the WRC Amanzi for Food research programme. The Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) held a meeting where we were selected from a range of international 2-page pitch documents to present the programme to […]

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16 11, 2016

Amanzi for Food expands to the North West!

2016-11-16T10:51:11+02:00November 16th, 2016|Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

The expansion of Amanzi for Food project in the North West province is the result of the positive and innovative attitudes of the two agriculture colleges within the province. The two agriculture colleges are Potchefstroom College of Agriculture and Taung Agriculture College. The collaborative focus of the North West province’s learning network is a response to […]

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1 11, 2016

Amanzi for Food researchers receive an award for their community engaged research

2017-09-15T10:20:32+02:00November 1st, 2016|Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

Three environmental education student researchers, Tichaona Pesanayi, Chisala Lupele and Phindile Sithole were recently awarded the 2016 Rhodes University Community Engagement student researchers of the year. The three shared the award for their combined work under the Amanzi for Food research programme. The students have worked with agricultural communities in implementing rainwater harvesting and conservation […]

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10 05, 2016

VLSA-Amanzi for Food small dams training

2017-09-15T10:20:33+02:00May 10th, 2016|Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

Lima Rural Development Foundation as the secretariat of the Virtual Livelihoods School Africa: Southern African Chapter (VLSA-SA) in conjunction with Mahlathini Development Foundation has a brief of providing a networking, information sharing and up-skilling platforms for NGOs in the livelihoods and food security sectors and presently consists of a loose network of around 20 NGOs.   […]

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8 02, 2016

Relating, connecting and deepening collective work on water for food in times of drought

2017-09-15T10:20:34+02:00February 8th, 2016|Uncategorized, Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

“We are very happy that we can now harvest water using the amadanyana (farm dams); we can now water vegetables in our garden with less effort” remarked the elderly leader of a cooperative garden with mostly women farmers in Alice in the Nkonkobe Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape. How did they get to this […]

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19 11, 2015

Course Certificate Ceremony

2015-11-23T10:45:12+02:00November 19th, 2015|Updates and Ideas|0 Comments

On the 15th of October 2015, we held the Amanzi for Food Training of Trainer’s course closing ceremony. The course is a key component of the WRC Amanzi for Food programme, it aims to disseminate knowledge and skills on rainwater harvesting and conservation practices for agricultural water use in homestead food production. This course was held […]

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The work reported on via this website [www.amanziforfood.co.za] draws on, and is supported in part by the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant No 98767), with specific reference to the work of the NRF SARChI Chair in Global Change and Social Learning Systems at Rhodes University.
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