GO YA GO PHETOŠO YE KAONE KA LENANEONG LA DIJO LA AFRIKA BORWA

The fact sheet outlines the necessity of a just transition in South Africa's food system, highlighting how historical land dispossession and corporate control have led to food insecurity and labor exploitation. It proposes a transition based on three pillars: equitable livelihoods, sustainable ecological production, and the right to healthy food. The document identifies barriers such as the influence of large companies and fragmented government policies, and provides a framework of principles and indicators to guide the transition toward a more just and resilient food system.

• South Africa's food system is characterized by extreme inequality in land and agricultural resource access, where a few large-scale commercial farmers produce most of the food while millions of small-scale farmers lack secure land, credit, or markets.
• Large corporations dominate the production, distribution, and retail of food, which marginalizes informal traders—approximately 600,000 of whom are mostly women—and prioritizes profit over the basic human right to food.
• Agricultural workers face precarious conditions, including low wages that often fall below the minimum required for basic nutrition, and a lack of secure housing.
• The industrial food system in South Africa is a significant contributor to climate change, accounting for 18% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions and causing water pollution and biodiversity loss through monoculture and chemical use.
• A 'just transition' must move beyond simple industrial upgrades to implement deep structural changes that ensure equitable livelihoods, ecological sustainability through agroecology, and a universal right to healthy food.
• Several barriers hinder this transition, including the dominance of market-led approaches over national food planning, fragmented government policies, and a 'green transition' approach that ignores existing social inequalities.

APA

Institute for Economic Justice (n.d.). GO YA GO PHETOŠO YE KAONE KA LENANEONG LA DIJO LA AFRIKA BORWA. https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/FactS-01-SEP-Towards-a-just-transition_Web_Fin.pdf

Chicago

Institute for Economic Justice. GO YA GO PHETOŠO YE KAONE KA LENANEONG LA DIJO LA AFRIKA BORWA. n.d. https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/FactS-01-SEP-Towards-a-just-transition_Web_Fin.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{instituteforeconomicjusticendphetoo, author = {{Institute for Economic Justice}}, title = {{GO YA GO PHETOŠO YE KAONE KA LENANEONG LA DIJO LA AFRIKA BORWA}}, institution = {Institute for Economic Justice}, url = {https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/FactS-01-SEP-Towards-a-just-transition_Web_Fin.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }