Ten Insights from the 2025 Food Indaba
The 2025 Food Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa offered rich insights into how African cities can reimagine and foster transformation of their food environments. While the theme of AI and the Food System was the starting point this year, the discussions and activities surfaced ten broader lessons that are relevant across the continent. Collaboration drives momentum. […]
Food Indaba 2025: Reflections at the Halfway Mark, and What’s Still to Come
The 2025 edition of Food Indaba opened with a bold and timely theme: “AI and the Food System.” This year, the programme investigates the role of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of food, raising important questions about whose knowledge is preserved, who benefits from innovation, and how AI can be used to strengthen, rather […]
Food Indaba 2025. AI and the Food System
The 2025 Food Indaba takes place from Monday the 7th to Sunday the 20th of July. The theme of this year’s event is Artificial Intelligence and the Food System. Approximately 20 events are planned to be held across the city. Key AI thought leaders will contribute to an in-person conference on Friday 18 July at […]
Call for Applications: Production Manager for Food Indaba 2025
The Food Indaba is accepting applications for a Production Manager to join our team from April to August 2025. This is a five-month contract role based in Cape Town, requiring an individual with strong event production experience and communication skills to help coordinate the 2025 edition of the annual Food Indaba. About Food Indaba With […]
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Cape Town’s Food Dialogues expand in 2024 to become the Food Indaba
For the past decade, Food Dialogues has been a vital forum for exploring the intricate relationships between food, economics, and politics within our complex food systems. This year, re-branded as the Food Indaba, the programme runs for two weeks from Monday, July 22 to Sunday, August 4, featuring a diverse array of events across Cape […]
Marking its first decade, Food Dialogues becomes the Food Indaba
Food Indaba: 22 July – 4 August 2024 First hosted above a Cape Town coffee shop in 2014, the Food Dialogues has since grown to become a signature annual programme of events drawing hundreds in person every year to workshops, conferences, walking tours, arts exhibitions, and cooking and eating experiences, while engaging nearly 100 000 […]
Food Crisis Makes Us Hungry For Solutions
Food Dialogues 2023: 4 – 18 July 2023, Cape Town The burning issue of the current food crisis will be top of the agenda at the upcoming annual Food Dialogues event that will be held at venues across Cape Town next month. “We are going through crisis after crisis: the Covid-19 pandemic just ended, and […]
Food Dialogues Cape Town 2023 Press Release
After a successful return to in-person programming in post-Covid 2022, Food Dialogues returns in 2023 with two weeks of events that connect, in diverse and nuanced ways, people and food systems across the city. With events planned at the V&A Waterfront, Philippi Village, Langa and in community centres and faith centres across the city, Food […]