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The Culinary Capital forges an equitable future

June 6, 2020January 15, 2021 admin community, food, food production, Franschoek

The village known for tasting menus, salmon trout, bubbly and hop-on hop-off wine tours is rapidly shape-shifting into a village trying to keep its own community fed. Could Franschhoek become a national community model, and what happens when the crisis subsides?

Biodiversity, nature, climate Economic

Restoration of the land and the people in Vanwyksdorp

May 27, 2020January 15, 2021 admin community upliftment, Conservation Management Services, Jobs for Carbon, restoration, soil erosion, soil infiltration, soil rehabilitation, spekboom, training, Vanwyksdorp

The community of Vanwyksdorp, a little agricultural village in the heart of the arid Little Karoo, was stuck in a status quo of depopulation of rural agriculture, unemployment, poverty and helplessness. Vanwyksdorp has a good school but the situation was exacerbated by the annual exodus of school leavers, full of knowledge and expectations, only to find a world of closed doors and very few or no opportunities.

Featured Thought corner

A letter to the President in the times of the Corona Virus

April 21, 2020January 15, 2021 admin Corona virus, food security, hope, pandemic, regenerative agriculture, response, restoration, water

A letter to the President from Prof. James Blignaut. In the times of the Corona Virus we need to see the light that Regenerative Agriculture provides.

Land and food

Nepo SA: The restoration dream continues… to become a reality

March 2, 2020January 15, 2021 admin conservation agriculture, food facilitation, Growing Nations Trust, maize, Nepo, networking, non-GM, Pure Pap, soya

ReStory narrator: Jaap Knot Nepo SA is a start-up company run by myself and my wife as a closed corporation.

Land and food

Restoring a dream: the journey of a smallholder into regenerative farming – Part 1

March 2, 2020January 15, 2021 admin conservation agriculture, Lesotho, maize, non-GM, regenerative agriculture, smallholder, soya

ReStory narrator: Jaap Knot, Ladybrand I am an agriculturist facilitating the implementation of Conservation Agriculture (CA). It is relatively easy

Economic

Hebron Mango Tree Growers

March 2, 2020January 15, 2021 admin community development, food security, funding, Hebron, livelihoods, mangoes, small-scale farmers

ReStory Narrator: Precious Chauke Cooperative background Hebron Mango Tree Growers is a cooperative based in Hebron, in the North West

Biodiversity, nature, climate

Saving Critically Endangered Peninsula Granite Fynbos from extinction at Tokai Park, Cape Town

February 10, 2020January 15, 2021 admin City of Cape Town, critically endangered, Peninsula Granite Fynbos, restoration, Table Mountain National Park, Tokai Park, volunteers

Peninsula Granite Fynbos is wholly confined to the City of Cape Town and found only on the lower, more fertile slopes of Table Mountain on the Cape Peninsula. Peninsula Granite Fynbos is perhaps best symbolised on Table Mountain by the Silver Tree, but is also incredibly rich in plant species and contains nine endemic species, all threatened with extinction: Unistem Aristea (Critically Endangered), Granite Cape Flax (Critically Endangered), Crown-climbers Friend (Rare), Small-flowered doll-rose (Rare), Spreading Everfig (Vulnerable), and Bakoven Brightfig (Vulnerable). Peninsula Granite Fynbos was also the home of the Wynberg Conebush and Table Mountain Widow Reed, but these species have been wiped out as a result of housing and agricultural developments and are now extinct.

Thought corner

Gimme shelter from the gathering #hashtag storm

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 admin

ReStory narrator: James Blignaut [This article was first published by The Daily Maverick. The article can be found here: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-01-28-gimme-shelter-from-the-gathering-hashtag-storm/

Biodiversity, nature, climate

Cork oak forest restoration in the Maamora cork oak forest in Morocco (June to December 2019)

February 3, 2020January 15, 2021 admin cork oak, forest planting, game farm, management plan, Morocco, overgraze, overharvest, rabbits, rehabilitation, unsustainable

While working on a management plan for a hunting farm (situated between the Mediterranean Sea in the North and the Atlas mountains in the South) in Morocco, North Africa, we came across a valiant effort to restore the Maamora cork oak forest. This forest has been subjected to overharvesting and overgrazing for many decades.

Biodiversity, nature, climate

Passive restoration of Critically Endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos at lower Tokai Park section of Table Mountain National Park, Cape Town

January 13, 2020January 15, 2021 admin Cape Flats Sand Fynbos, Cape Town, fire management, fynbos, restoration, Table Mountain National Park, Tokai Park, volunteers

ReStory narrators: Megan Smith, Dr Alanna Rebelo & Dr Tony Rebelo Cape Flats Sand Fynbos (CFSF) is the most threatened