News

  • South African Slow Food knowledge-sharing community launched over a good meal

    On Friday night (3 May 2019) a Coastal Food Jam took place at Soute in Salt River. The event was the culmination of a two day Transformation Lab (T-Lab) for Coastal Wild Food stakeholders in the Western Cape.

  • Prof Musango awarded SARChI Chair

    Associate professor at the CST, Josephine Kaviti Musango, has been awarded a SARChI Chair.

  • Young South Africans want to farm, the system isn’t ready

    Persistent unemployment has become synonymous with the youth experience across South Africa. Youth unemployment rates are almost four times higher than the regional average – 62% of South Africans between 15 and 35 years [...]

  • Young South Africans want to farm, but the system isn’t ready for them

    Persistent unemployment has become synonymous with the youth experience across South Africa. Youth unemployment rates are almost four times higher than the regional average – 62% of South Africans between 15 and 35 years [...]

  • For success, train families not farmers

    As the imperative for a just transition within the agricultural sector becomes more acute, so too will the need to improve the way we approach capacity development for emerging farmers. 

  • Youth want to farm, but not as slave labour

    Nobody wants to be trapped in a menial, minimum-wage job. Yet in commercial and subsistence agriculture alike, these are the vast majority of jobs that the sector offers young South Africans.

  • How to Live Better and Stop Destroying the Planet

    A recent United Nations-backed report highlighted the scale of destruction humans are inflicting on the natural world. To reverse these trends, humanity must transform its economic models and food system, [...]

  • How to Live Better and Stop Destroying the Planet

    A recent United Nations-backed report highlighted the scale of destruction humans are inflicting on the natural world. To reverse these trends, humanity must transform its economic models and food system, [...]

  • CST student awards Fairall Award

    Congratulations to Tafadzwa Shumba who has been awarded the Fairall Award for the best paper by a student author published in the African Journal of Wildlife Research in 2018.