Shoprite is Changing Our Communities
Communities are the heartbeat of Shoprite’s business they are home to our employees and our customers. As Africa’s largest food retailer, we work daily to fight hunger through our support…
Community Market Gardens
Early Childhood Development at the Foundation of Building a Community
The Cape Winelands are a foodie’s dream, serving up tantalising farm-to-table produce from expansive farms along the N1 to luxury restaurants and local stalls alike. Despite lying just ten kilometres…
Can CSI Have a Real Impact on Food Security?
We’ve written about the role food gardens can play in improving food security in South Africa, but what about the role of the private sector and CSI? We know that…
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines presents its ‘Forest Of The Future’
17 October 2019 – In September, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and 14 456 scholars broke the record for the most number of paper planes flown at a single time. The…
Nourishing the Nation With Food Gardens
Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) is feeding the nation by planting food gardens, orchards and fruit trees across South Africa. Every year, more and more food gardens are springing…
COP24: Global food systems are failing humanity and speeding up climate change
The current approach to food, nutrition, agriculture, and the environment is unsustainable and must change. There is no time to waste, say the130 national academies of science and medicine across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe that compose the InterAcademy Partnership.
Market Garden Success Stories with Shoprite South Africa
With ingenuity, dedication and strong partnerships, it is possible to overcome dire circumstances and transform lives – as a group of ordinary people from Alexandra, Gauteng, have proved. In 2011,…
Making Headlines with Shoprite South Africa
The market gardens supported by Shoprite South Africa were recently featured on CGTN Africa’s Global Business Show. Watch the video to learn more about the impact we have been working so…
Harvesting with Oricol
It was a bountiful harvest on the 18th of May when staff from Oricol Environmental Services visited Emmangweni Primary School in Tembisa for a volunteer day. Oricol staff volunteered to…