Traditional South African staple, pap or maize meal. An only meal in time of poverty.
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South Africa’s national survey of food and nutrition security identifies the areas most in need.
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Want to stay active and healthy in later life? Food fortification and strength and balance training could help improve quality of life for older adults
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his eighth State of the Nation Address at City Hall in Cape Town.
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The president’s speech couldn’t cover up for the fact that the last five years have been among the most difficult for ordinary South Africans.
Halfway through the Sustainable Development Goals timeline, the world is not on track to meet the target of ending malnutrition by 2030.
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As global acute food insecurity increases, severe wasting — which already affects 13.6 million children — is expected to rise with it. Treating wasting requires specialized nutrition and medical care.
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Like most weight-loss programs, the OMAD diet makes bold promises – and comes with risks.
A woman at a a counselling centre for rape victims in Paoua, 500km northwest of Bangui in the CAR.
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The birth rate was lower and the death rate markedly higher in areas outside government control in the Central African Republic.
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TB is the single most deadly infectious killer of humankind. New research shows food and proper nutrition work like a vaccine against the disease.
Proposed solutions to malnutrition included providing school breakfast.
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Failing to understand what communities consider important greatly diminishes the responsiveness of policies to the actual needs of individuals.
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Using simple behavioural science models can help programmes to understand people’s lives and how to design nutrition interventions that directly benefit them.
The violence in north-east Nigeria has displaced thousands of people.
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The insecurity in the area has serious implications for development and the well-being of people, especially young people.
Starvation was omnipresent in the Warsaw Ghetto for both young and old.
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A researcher at Tufts University near Boston discovered an old book full of research on starvation written by Jewish doctors imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Children who need help most tend to experience adversity throughout childhood. That continuing adversity muffles the benefit of improved early nutrition.
Infectious diseases like COVID-19 top the list of health concerns.
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The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.
The raw vegan diet is an extreme form of veganism.
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Raw veganism may have more risks than benefits.
The unfolding crisis will only worsen the situation in Tigray.
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Since the war broke out, some healthcare workers have lost their jobs, others have been displaced, wounded, threatened or killed.
Professor Julian May examining food supplies in the home of Brenda Siko, who runs an unregistered early childhood development centre in Worcester’s Mandela Square informal settlement.
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A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
The book includes haunting photos from inside the ghetto, along with its record of the medical effects of starvation.
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The story behind the research can be as compelling as the results. Recording the effects of starvation, a group of Jewish doctors demonstrated their dedication to science – and their own humanity.
Food parcels are handed to residents at a food distribution organised by the grassroots charity Hunger Has No Religion, in Westbury, Johannesburg.
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Problems caused by malnutrition - such as obesity - are on the rise in South Africa, with serious health consequences.
A wheat warehouse in western Ukraine. Food insecurity is expected to worsen with rising food prices and the war trapping wheat, barley and corn in Ukraine and Russia.
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Environmental catastrophe, war, a worldwide pandemic. What does this mean for feeding the world today and in the future?
Threatened by insecurity, Nigerian farmers are increasingly abandoning their land, adding to food inflation.
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In spite of policies aimed at tackling food inflation, food prices in Nigeria have continued to rise.