In spite of policies aimed at tackling food inflation, food prices in Nigeria have continued to rise.
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Reviving long-lost legume species could help improve global food security and decrease world hunger.
Adolescence lies between childhood and adulthood, but adolescents are neither big children nor little adults. They have increased food requirements to support their rapid physical growth and maturation.
Researchers asked aid workers how to best prepare for the climate emergency in places where its effects are most severe.
Nutrition for kids is key to achieving economic development.
Hunger is not the cause of the current social upheaval. But, taken along with other deep-rooted structural inequalities, it provides additional fuel for socio-political conflagration.
South Africa needs a public health response that expands the successes of the country’s HIV testing and treatment programme to provide care for multiple diseases.
As the global South transitions to a predominantly urban future, food offers a way to understand the role of cities in future development.
Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, is the winner of the 2021 World Food Prize for her work identifying small fish as valuable nutrition sources for developing countries.
Deficient leptin levels caused by malnutrition might protect against severe COVID-19 and related death. This could be another reason for the lower than expected COVID-19 deaths in Africa.
Implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in all African countries will require sufficient political will and support from civil society.
To overcome food insecurity, especially in a pandemic, Nigeria’s emergency preparedness requires a total overhaul of it’s agri-food supply chain.
Following a healthy diet may lower the risk of disease complications and allow patients to live well despite having the disease.
Wholegrains provide us with important protein, fat, vitamins, and minerals.
Malnutrition during the first 1000 days of life can cast a long shadow over a person’s life.
Providing multivitamin and mineral supplements to the elderly could be a cheap way of boosting the protectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
The importance of diet to a child’s development cannot be overstated.
Avoidant restrictive intake food disorder is a relatively new condition that researchers are only beginning to understand.
The only way to gain weight is to eat more calories than your body requires.
African countries need multi-sectoral approaches to tackle food insecurity.
Top contributors
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Director DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Wollongong
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in Global Health, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Comparative Human Biology, University of Cambridge
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Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Principle dietitian at the Nutrition Information Centre, Stellenbosch University
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
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Post-doctoral fellow, University of British Columbia
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Economics and South African Research Chair in the Economics of Social Policy, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Director, Transformation Strategies Department, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), CGIAR System Organization
