The Sustainability Institute's Cookbook: Recipes for Food and Community Building

[摘要] ENGLISH SUMMARY: The Sustainability Institute in Stellenbosch South Africa is an institution dedicated toteach and promote sustainable development through different courses.Postgraduate, Masters and even PhD courses are offered in partnership withStellenbosch University to students that come from many different countries.This participatory action research (PAR) project aims to investigate the role of food atthe Sustainability Institute. Quantitative research and semi- structured interviews areused in order to understand what this institution consumes when it comes to food,and how the decisions about what to buy and/or consume are taken.Then, with the use of a Brazilian methodology (Elos) as a roadmap to PAR, all thestaff at the Sustainability Institute are invited to play a game where they cooktogether and share the food in order to bring about reflection and action on thisimportant theme relating to sustainable development.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University