The South African Organic Sector Organisation (SAOSO) in collaboration with Participatory Guarantee System South Africa (PGSSA) has launched SA’s first Ecological Organic Agriculture Pollinator programme. The programme is training 20 people to set up PGSs throughout South Africa that will help build more connected local food systems, provide organic assurance for consumers … [Read more...]
Supporting farm workers with food baskets during lockdown
The Covid-19 crisis will also be a hunger crisis. The PHA Food & Farming Campaign are deeply concerned about the impact the lockdown will have on their farmland communities. The PHA Food & Farming Campaign is initiating a drive to support 1550 vulnerable families in the Philippi Horticultural Area with food baskets during the Covid-19 lockdown. These families are … [Read more...]
Cape High Court rules in favour of the PHA Campaign
In a precedent-setting ruling, Judge Kate Savage on Monday declared that South African municipalities must take climate change and water scarcity into account when making planning decisions. The Western Cape High Court ruling states that the rezone permission and environmental authorisations for the development known as Oaklands City are suspended, and must be returned to … [Read more...]
Philippi farmers challenge development decisions in court
A legal battle over the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), situated in the urban edge of Cape Town, starts this week. On 15 and 16 October 2019, the PHA Food & Farming Campaign will be arguing for the preservation of a key piece of agricultural land in the City of Cape Town’s jurisdiction that is under threat from proposed developments. The case on the roll in the … [Read more...]
Helping hands make a difference in Philippi
DJs for Bread and helping hands made a difference in Philippi, helping out in a local vegetable garden. Bigger Than Me in association with Heart Capital, Black Mango, Breathe Sunshine Africa Music Conference and BPM Magazine came together on Saturday the 9th of November to plant seeds, transplant seedlings at the Foodpods depot in the Philippi horticultural area. The aim … [Read more...]
Philippi farmers speak up
The opposition to the development of housing on the best farmlands in the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) is a call to the Mayor to consider public concerns. Concerned citizens, eminent persons and community groups find that the Mayor only considers the interests of developers. Why else would you, Madam Mayor, propose housing on the best farmlands while other land in the PHA … [Read more...]
