BoP Solutions Set To Advance Food Security In South Africa**

Leonie Joubert shared her experiences and insights in researching South Africa’s food sector: “If we want to make sure that our fellow South Africans are well fed and properly nourished, we need to understand that food security isn’t just about making sure our farmers are producing enough calories for all of us. We need to make sure that those calories are wholesome and nutritious. At the moment, the industrial food system tends to take these good calories, given to us by our farmers, and processes much of this food so heavily that it brings energy dense foods to us, but ones that don’t have enough nutrients.

The result is that we get too much energy and not enough goodness from our food. It’s making us heavy and sick, and it means we aren’t food secure”. Joubert went further in suggesting that we subside fresh and whole foods, and tax processed and sugary foods.

In an audience that included government officials and impact investors, the future of food proved to be topical and the evening tremendously success, even trending on social media.

**   This article was originally published www.spice4life.co.za