Food Security

As in 2022, there were 345 million people who are food insecure. The study showed high levels of social vulnerability in the country linked to food insecurity. Over 20.6% of the South Africans in our sample were socially vulnerable, and 20.4% food insecure. This amounts to about 7.8 million people out of our sample of 39.6 million.

The United States Department of Agriculture projects a 57% growth to 577 million hungry people by 2032. This movement is opposite to the direction expected by the Sustainable Development Goals, Goal Number 2 to End World Hunger by 2030.

Food Security

Our contribution to solving the problem of food insecurity would be working with grass roots community organisations, provision of resilient seeds and where possible for local community gardens and working with agricultural extensions to provide the necessary knowledge for communities to reduce food insecurity. For the Alfeco Foundation Food security is all about under privileged children having access to at least ONE nutritious meal per day.

For our school feeding program we work across all provinces with a particular bias to rural schools. Our mission is to eradicate malnutrition in and amongst our communities by 2050.