As the world recovers from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, more innovative ideas to ensure food security are being discovered. In this virtual insight session, Sarah Alsen, the Director of Bioregional South Africa shared a good practice of a food garden started by homeless men during the lockdown at the end of 2021. Using the Sisonke Garden as a pilot project, Bioregional collaborated with the local municipality to work on developing the business plan to be applied in more gardens to promote local production as well as composting. The second good practice was presented by Maged Al Sayed, who shared his experience in Habiba community, which is an oasis of community and ecological cultivation in South Sinai, Egypt.

In the second installment on Urban Food Security, we get nuggets on circular economy along the food supply chain and collaboration between non-state actors and local governments to contribute towards food security. Bioregional worked with the municipality to transform this project into a scalable, replicable system to be applied and create a whole market, providing employment opportunities and a localized solution for food waste that would limit greenhouse gas emissions from landfills as well as transport involved in disposing of food and garden waste.