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NEWS & UPDATES

JOINT CIVIL SOCIETY STATEMENT: Why are South African classrooms and children becoming fast food billboards?

In a joint statement, Biowatch joined 22 other civil society organisations in calling  on the Minister of Basic Education to end the trend of corporates such as McDonalds branding desks in schools as this has far-reaching consequences.
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Agroecology for food sovereignty

MEDIA RELEASE: Agroecology for food sovereignty – African champions call for policy support and investment to transform food systems

Biowatch joined more than 100 participants from 22 African countries in Sagana, Kenya, for the African Agroecology Workshop (AAW 2025) to celebrate the power of agroecology to transform Africa’s food systems and demand urgent action to support sustainable, equitable and resilient food production.
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PUBLIC SEMINAR: Markets, politics and agroecology

Markets, Politics and Agroecology, a Biowatch Public Seminar, took place on Wednesday, 14 August, at Vuleka Centre in Bothas Hill, Durban. Siphiwe Sithole (African Marmalade) took a holistic look at the politics of food from seed to plate in South Africa, exploring a restorative journey; Mvuselelo Ngcoya (Bonakude Farm) unpacked the strategies employed by the...
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Publications & Documents

Please see the Publications & Documents section of this website for a wide range of resources, including these titles: 

Stories of Resilience Built Through Agroecology

We challenge the industrialised food system to ensure biodiversity, food sovereignty and social justice.

Biowatch South Africa

OUR WORK

Festivities at the opening of Biowatch’s innovative SIBUYISELA ULWAZI Food and Seed Festival.

Our research and advocacy work is grounded in the direct experience of the communities in which we work. We support smallholder farmers “on the ground” who are building strong evidence of the benefits of agroecology.

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Bhekisiwe Gumede, an agroecology smallholder farmer in Tshaneni, northern KwaZulu-Natal.

We challenge the industrialised food system, advocating and demonstrating agroecology as the ecologically sustainable alternative that protects and builds biodiversity, is empowering to farmers, and promotes food sovereignty.

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Winnie Mngomezulu’s seed bank, housed in a small stone-walled hut, is reverently presented.

Biowatch is a founding partner of the regional Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI), a dynamic partnership of 16 Southern African organisations committed to securing food sovereignty in the region.

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