The state of unemployment and urban food security challenges in South Africa have created the need for innovative solutions, such as collaborative community gardens. Nowhere is this being more clearly demonstrated than by Balwin, African Women in Agriculture (AWiA), Thembalami (BAT) Community Garden in Lombardy East.
The BAT project aims to secure the future of food by fostering the establishment of community and urban vertical vegetable gardens for beneficiaries from Alexandra. Thus, building a network of new female community farmers and shortening food miles.
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