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Food loss and waste is often discussed as a problem. But what if we also looked at food loss and waste as an opportunity?
Across the food value chain, businesses are finding innovative ways to recover value from resources that would otherwise be discarded. Food upcycling, animal feed, composting, bio-based products and waste-to-value solutions are creating new possibilities for how we use resources and how businesses participate in a more circular economy.
The opportunity is not simply to produce less waste. It is to ask what can be done with what would otherwise be wasted.
Read more: From Food Loss to Opportunity: The Businesses Building Circular Value
From Recognition to Participation: Rethinking What It Means to Support Local Business
Heritage Day gives South Africans an opportunity to celebrate the people, places, traditions, knowledge and creativity that shape who we are.
But heritage is not only something we inherit. It is also something people continue to build.
Across South Africa, local entrepreneurs and businesses are turning skills, ideas, cultural knowledge and lived experience into products, services and livelihoods. They create value within their communities while contributing to the broader economy.
If you're one of them, this Heritage Day is probably not the first time you've been celebrated. The harder question is what happens after the celebration: are you being recognised, or are you being given room to grow?
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