ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 delves further into the lived realities of the urban agriculture initiative “Kos en Fynbos”. The overall intention is to shed light on the group’s engagement with food sovereignty through the lens of the critical urban food perspective. The concepts of everyday forms of resistance and the production of space are used to uncover the revolutionary potential and related challenges evident in the involved communities. The notion of proposing alternatives is framing this chapter, and the food sovereignty pillars are used to differentiate related insights. Hence, this chapter consists of five separate sections which are inspired by the food sovereignty pillars: (1) local production and consumption, (2) local food providers, (3) access to land, (4) community knowledge and skills, as well as (5) connection to nature. The experiences of the initiative show diverse facets of these pillars reaching from ambitions for self-sufficiency to intensive debates over official land access. Overall, it is argued that food sovereignty is evident in practice.
