Indaba Down South: Recent Episodes
Catherine Langsford
As part of the long-term move towards sustainable forms of transportation, interest in electric vehicles has grown rapidly in recent years. Are electric vehicles viable in South Africa? In this episode, we consider the opportunities and problems that electric vehicles present in the journey towards greening South Africa's transportation sector.
GDP is one of the most well-known and powerful measures in the world, yet it fails to represent the realities of life for many. For this reason, reliance on GDP as a measure of economic welfare has been called into question. The Beyond GDP movement challenges the prevalence of GDP, calling for a shift in focus to well-being and measures that try to capture progress towards it. This episode considers how development can be measured in more holistic and accurate ways.
Few people go through life without experiencing trauma. It is a common response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event. Trauma shows up in many ways in our lives, and can be experienced individually and on a collective level. As the adage suggests, hurt people tend to hurt people. These cycles of harm prevent conditions for healing, particularly within the large systems of extraction and exploitation that characterise modern life. In this episode, Amina Mwaikambo joins us to explore trauma and the many ways it surfaces in our lives and in society.
Regenerative agriculture is increasingly recognised as a comprehensive solution to not only enrich agro-biodiversity and improve nutrition levels within our foods, but also to support the rebalancing of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Its advantages go beyond agriculture, and so it is a means of sustaining life in all its forms. We are joined by Andrew Ardington, founder of the Regenerative Agriculture Association of Southern Africa, to discuss the role that regenerative agriculture can play in the production of healthy food while simultaneously mitigating climate change.