Food Justice
The global COVID-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to slow the spread of the disease have highlighted the inequities and injustices of the capitalist food system.
What COVID-19 Revealed About Hunger

SWOP Postdoctoral Fellow, Brittany Kesselman, recently published a piece in Project Syndicate on COVID-19 and hunger in South Africa. Read the full article here. The pandemic has shown the importance of community-based initiatives in fighting food insecurity. Unfortunately, when the United Nations Food Systems Summit convenes this month, few voices of those most affected by […]
Interview with Kenyan Peasants League’s policy chief, David Otieno
Brittany Kesselman, a research associate at SWOP, spoke to David Otieno, a Land & Environment Scientist, Economist and Social Science Researcher, as well as Policy Chief of the Kenyan Peasants League (KPL).
Interview with Jade Percassi of Brazil’s Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST)
This is one of a series of conversations on Covid-19, the right to food and radical politics. Andrew Bennie, a co-founder of the food justice collective, We Will All Eat, spoke to Jade Percassi, who works with development projects in the team of the National Secretariat of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in […]
Interview with Rev. Tsakane Sibanda and Qaba Mbola of Ujamaa collective
Ujamaa Collective, which works in the township of Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats, and is a Self Reliance / Self Awareness community initiative that strives for communal economic development and sharing based on a cooperative approach.
On the right to food: interview with Indian campaigner, Dipa Sinha
Dipa Sinha, who teaches economics at Ambedkar University in Delhi has been associated with the right to food campaign in India over the last 15 years and has also worked with the Office of Commissioners to the Supreme Court of India on the right to food.
South Africa still has a long way to go on the right to food

Brittany Kesselman’s latest article in The Conversation on the right to food in South Africa. Fifty-four percent of South Africans are hungry or at risk of hunger. Hunger affects people’s health, as well as their ability to live full and productive lives. That’s why hunger represents a violation of their basic human rights – not […]
Short article and podcast | South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle ‘hidden hunger’
Brittany Kesselman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Society, Work and Politics Institute, recently published an article with The Conversation on hidden hunger in South Africa. You can read the article below. You can also listen to a podcast related to the article here. South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle ‘hidden hunger’ […]