South Africa

National School Feeding Program – Greenhouses (Food Security)

South Africa (seedling production in Bloemfontein
delivery to Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal schools)
Supply schools with fresh produce through a distributed greenhouse system supporting school feeding
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- Large-scale logistics across 122 greenhouses to supply spinach, onions, and beetroot
- established a supply chain from seedling production in Bloemfontein to schools across provinces, operating despite bureaucratic hurdles
- Operational coordinators and systems integrators
- navigated delivery pathways and administrative complexity to sustain end-to-end supply
- Functioning cross-province production and delivery chain supporting school nutrition at scale
- Shows food security as institutional and logistical systems work—reliable provision depends on coordination, resilience, and the capacity to work through administrative constraints