Mabele or Sorghum production in South Africa has dropped over the past decades with a peak of around 700,000 tonnes in the 1980s to a low of 100,000 in the later 2010s. The United States is a major exporter of sorghum to South Africa, despite Sorghum having thousands of years of indigenous history and cultural significance in South Africa, and being foreign to the USA. Sorghum also remains a Vat taxable grain - unlike wheat and maize which are both not indigenous grains. Sorghums role in spritual and nourishment practices is slowly being lost in South Africa, and represents significant injustice in the South African food system.

Siphiwe Sithole is a Gauteng farmer, indigenous and heritage food activist, seed saver and vegetable vendor. Her company, African Marmalade, works with other small farmers, chefs, dieticians and domestic consumers to promote the use of traditional crops and farming methods. Her waterwise, environmentally adapted ingredients not only play a vital role in creating resilience against climate change but are also deeply delicious as you can attest. - Capital Digital

Mais or Maize is an indigenous grain from Mexico that has spread across the world. But within mexican traditional cosmology it holds a bigger role than purely sustanaence. For Héctor Peña "Mais is not a commodity, it is a web of relations". This is the central concept of Milpa - more familiar to the rest of the world as the three sisters of corn, beans and squash - Milpa is an extended sociocultural construct rather than simply a system of agriculture that involves complex interactions and relations between crops, other plants, insects, animals, the sky and the soil.

Héctor Peña is a writer, editor, and translator from Mexico, who engages in critical and creative research with grassroots projects involved in agroecology, autonomy, cooperation, solidarity, and mutual aid.