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Pulses – or grain legumes – are indigenous foods that can play a massive role in tackling food security on the African continent.
Ghana’s school feeding programme has reached millions of children in the past 11 years. It does important work, but needs more support to grow and become sustainable.
There are a number of efforts on the African continent aimed at helping people overcome food insecurity. Even though some progress has been made, the situation remains bleak.
Is there such a thing as brain food?
People living in rural parts of South Africa lack diversity in their eating because a starch based diet is perceived as cheaper and is very common.
Some of the most vulnerable people in society are being kept alive by food banks.
About one in seven Americans report going hungry at some point during the year, a fact apparently far from the minds of the presidential candidates.
Australians eat a lot of water. Nearly 500 L is required to produce the food each of us eats every day.
One in six children in Australia report going to bed hungry – these children are more likely to have mental health problems and be bullied regularly.
Genetically modified animals can help to feed the world’s burgeoning population, but there is still a lot of misinformation concerning its safety.
Students are going hungry on college campuses. The latest survey shows that four in 10 University of California students do not have access to nutritious food.
Our bodies have a complex system to control food intake, driven by hormones. Hormone levels also change when we gain and lose weight.
The challenges of feeding a hungry planet are many. Gene editing crops to be more productive, nutritious or hardy could help, but concerns about GMOs abound.
With most of the world’s potential farmland already in use, it may be time to start foraging.
We’ve long known that that the gut is responsible for digesting food and expelling the waste. More recently, we realised the gut has many more important functions and acts a type of mini-brain, affecting…
During the United Nations General Assembly meetings this week, Ban Ki-Moon has convened a high-level side event on the Zero Hunger Challenge. This initiative by the UN Secretary-General bears the tag line…
Nearly a third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted, according to the UN’s World Resources Institute. If we convert this mass into calories, it constitutes nearly a quarter of all food…
Charitable food provision is growing, and more and more people are being fed by food banks and other initiatives. The press and TV have debated the legitimacy of such provision and highlighted the number…
The only things that seem to be really growing in the UK and US economies these days are hunger and food insecurity. The growth of food banks and other forms of hunger-relief charities is a strong reminder…
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Economics, Baylor University
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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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Henry J. Leir Professor in Food Security, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of Social and Environmental Challenges, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Nutrition Science, Purdue University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
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Principle dietitian at the Nutrition Information Centre, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Scientist, University of Minnesota
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Professor and Head of Division Human Nutrition at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, 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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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Public Health, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
