Advancing Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems in Southern Africa
The Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems – Southern Africa Programme
SHEFS-SA is a Wellcome Trust-funded research programme led by the University of KwaZulu-Natal, working with partners across Southern Africa and the UK to advance sustainable and healthy food systems and inform regional policy.
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The Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems – Southern Africa (SHEFS-SA) programme, funded by the Wellcome Trust’s Climate Research Partnerships, is a multi-partner, Global South-led research programme led out of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, with collaborators in the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe and Malawi to ensure regional policy impact. The SHEFS-SA community comprises a consortium of partners and collaborators in universities, research institutes, local/regional government entities, and informal, peri-urban and rural communities, forming a Community of Practice (CoP). SHEFS-SA is an extension of the Wellcome Trust-funded Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) programme, which ran from 2017 to 2023.
