The initiative is located in the winter rainfall area of South Africa at the south-west of the Western Cape Province. Cold Mountain aims to demonstrate sustainable development through indigenous knowledge and agroecology to achieve a holistic and self-sustaining farm eco-system and to enable local communities to reach greater well-being through economic...

The initiative is situated in the greater Johannesburg area in Gauteng Province. This urban area is the most densely populated and industrialised in southern Africa. Most of its food is supplied by industrial farming operations via centralised distribution systems. The mission of the initiative is to create reliable and transparent organic...

The communities Biowatch is engaged with are located in Umkhanyakude and Zululand District Municipalities in northern Kwazulu-Natal, in the south-east of South Africa. The initiative is focused around smallholder family farmers, self-organised as local farmer groups. The farmers implement a number of inter-linked agroecological practices which build new knowledge on the...

The initiative is located in the rural Sarah Baartman municipal district in the west of the Eastern Cape Province, home to the Xhosa people. Poverty in the territory is associated with limited livelihood options, unemployment, low wages, poor labour standards, and precarious employment. Tenure insecurity is common amongst farm dwellers....

The Mission of the Heiveld Cooperative is to produce and market the finest organic rooibos tea at fair prices on behalf of the members and thereby create a better life for small-scale farmers and other members of the community. The Heiveld Cooperative is a member-owned business based on agroecological principles that...

The Senegalese village of Guélack is located 19 km southeast of Saint-Louis and north of Dakar, in the commune of Gandon. The drought of the 1970s severely affected the population of the commune. The village of Guélack was gradually emptied of its inhabitants. The village recognizes that the main climatic risks...