Since 1960 the world has produced enough food to feed everybody yet, with few exceptions globally, hunger - or food insecurity - has increased.
South Africa is one of the few countries that is capable of providing enough food for its people. However, 20 percent of South Africans have insufficient access to food (GHS, 2009) and at least 14 million South Africans are vulnerable to food insecurity (Stats SA, 2000). Whilst poverty and food insecurity are rife in urban areas, the rural areas are particularly hard hit because this is where approximately two-thirds of the country's poor live.
If hunger in South Africa is not a matter of supply, what is the problem?
It's one of access, affordability and logistics.
Every day huge volumes of good food go to waste. Why is this, when the country has thousands of worthy agencies, not-for-profit organisations and programmes trying to secure food for the needy?
In the past these organisations have largely worked independently, with inadequate resources. No existing organisation has, until now, harnessed South Africa's private and public resources. The result? Huge, avoidable and unacceptable inefficiencies: wasted surpluses of quality food, unharvested crops and under-utilised manufacturing facilities.
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