Humanities’ anthropology lecturer Carina Truyts is part of a team that applied for, and won, a $1- million IDRC research grant for a three-year project titled ‘Nourishing Spaces’.

This project is investigating the link between non-communicable disease (such as diabetes) and food systems in six African cities: Nairobi and Kisumu in Kenya, Windhoek and Oshakati in Namibia, and Cape Town and Kimberley in South Africa.

Carina is leading the Kimberley research. 

She is currently conducting interviews in Galeshewe that ask about lifelong food experiences and will continue with ethnographic immersion and analysis over the next year.

The project runs for three years and aims to create links between communities, the university and other stakeholders such as provincial health.