Threatened by insecurity, Nigerian farmers are increasingly abandoning their land, adding to food inflation.
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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.
Women in an Indonesian village plan strategies for reconstruction after extreme weather.
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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.
Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
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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.
Kitwe Food and Farmers’ Market, Zambia.
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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.
A healthcare worker performs a nasal swab as he tests a woman for COVID-19 in Bamako, Mali.
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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.
The competing interests of economic growth and public health aren’t being managed well.
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Implementing a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in all African countries will require sufficient political will and support from civil society.
A tomato vendor attends to buyer at a makeshift food market established to cushion the effect of COVID lockdown in Lagos.
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