- Title
- Towards a sustainable food management system: Exploring indigenous food practices of sorghum grain in the Moshana village, Northwest, South Africa
- Creator
- Nkgothoe,Julius Batlhalifi
- Subject
- Food security -- Moshana village-- South Africa
- Subject
- Sustainable development-- South Africa -- North West
- Subject
- Sorghum --Composition
- Date Issued
- 2022-12
- Date
- 2022-12
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/59271
- Identifier
- vital:61803
- Description
- This research study explores indigenous sorghum food management practices as a pathway towards sustainable food systems. The level of hunger is ever-increasing, and so is the global population. Regions less industrialized and developed suffer the most as they host growing populations and most of the worlds undernourished. Further intensified in this problem are a culling and unforgiving food systems run by a few conglomerates and a knowledge system driven by a histography of ‘othering’ even in its knowledge creation process. Although there exist institutions such as the United Nations Food and Agricultural programs, these remain relegated to policy and intergovernmental level, in the process, not being mindful of the real food issues faced at the grassroots level. This research study centralizes indigenous food practices to make sense of how rural and indigenous livelihoods such as those located in the Moshana village thrive and survive in a monopolized and urban-centred food climate like South Africa. By interviewing 12 participants, living, and taking part in the Moshana village food systems and employing stringent face-to-face semi-structured interviews, we present an indigenous food system as experienced and shared by Moshana Village Community members. The findings present an array of indigenous and food management practices, perspectives through an African ecological philosophical view. Conceptually inspired by the works of Vandana Shiva and many global south thinkers on seeds, grains and sustainable indigenous food systems, this study hopes to reinsert back the centrality of food in the growing field of African Sociology. The findings clearly show that elderly women are preserving the Sorghum knowledge and preservation processes. These practices have assisted the Moshana Village community members to cope with food shortages and lockdown restrictions during the strict COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa. The study concludes with clear need for the archiving and intergenerational communication of food management within the rural communities.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, School of Governmental and Social Sciences, 2022
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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