Resilience Stories

This is a collection of stories about the people and projects that explore resilience and sustainability in southern Africa. Click on the links to find out more.


Food Innovators

A short book explores ‘storymaking’ as a way of unpacking some of the different capacities that social innovators in the food system of the Western Cape, South Africa, are drawing on in their efforts towards resilience.

Race to Zero

The UNFCCC’s Race to Zero platform tells stories of progress towards a more resilient zero-carbon future from across the planet, being delivered by business, governments, cities, civil society, faith groups and more.

Essential services

Dr Liza van der Merwe presents her PhD research on resilience in essential services. Liza highlights that essential service delivery requires a tight interplay between resilience in social and technical infrastructure, along with capabilities for specified and general resilience.