Paper short abstract:

Reimagining the greater Muizenberg community kitchen as a case study to debate discussion on food security which highlights the role of new development pathways to use food as a connector to different diversities of rural-urban people in the regional food systems through innovative solutions.

Paper long abstract:

There is much research that has contributed to an improved understanding of the future of food security, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new pathway was developed by using a local community kitchen in Muizenberg in western cape province region, cape town, South Africa as a case study to map out the future of food security in times of crisis.

This kitchen aims to provide nutritious, affordable, plant-based meals to our community. it is also place of diverse learning, sharing, empowering the volunteers and growth to support the local economy and future resilience by sustaining our community kitchen for the community.

This document contains an overview of the story of the community kitchen on how we create self-sustainability as a new pathway development to sustain the community and reduce Zero hunger in the regional food system. This paper describes the key elements of how we respond to covid-19 pandemic by sharing food parcels and creating 13 soup kitchens across the community to tackle the immediate response to covid-19 pandemic and agricultural systems by growing home food gardening in different homes, also having a consciousness Dry goods store to reduce Zero waste and a local currency as an innovation to reduce food crisis.

Insights gained from our article and outreach and their value in how we create adaptation, transformation and sustainability as a new development pathway to solve any future problem crisis in the food security system in our society.