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Megan Lindow

Megan holds an MA in journalism from Stanford University and has worked as a journalist and consultant for more than a decade, travelling widely across Africa. She recently completed her master's thesis at the Sustainability Institute at Stellenbosch University exploring how collaborative processes of storytelling may contribute towards an understanding of social-ecological resilience and transformation in the food landscapes of the Western Cape.

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Feature/The many layers of Cape Town’s water crisis

More than half of the world’s cities already face recurring water shortages. Cape Town’s lack of water is a shock to many but also a result of slow changes. Beyond blame and technical fixes there lie insights into new ways of thinking about water.

WRITTEN BY Megan Lindow
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Feature/Rediscovering local wild food in South Africa’s Western Cape

Dutch colonists introduced commercial farming techniques to the region more than 300 years ago. Today, local wild food activists are working with communities to reintroduce endemic edible plants into the local food system, recover long-lost food heritages, and potentially help save the threatened biodiversity of the Cape.