Nomonde Buthelezi

Nomonde Buthelezi is an urban farmer based in Cape Town, cultivating organic crops in her township for sale to the local community. She is an early childhood educator by training, a food justice activist, and coordinator of community-led food systems research projects. She has co-published a number of opinion papers and research articles. She is the co-founder and head of the Food Agency Cape Town (FACT), and collaborates with various community-led organisations, at the moment her focus is to establish a network of community kitchens and work through community research towards a summit: with pens and pots to parliament.