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We highlight the distressing rise in the prices of essential food products. We call for the urgent expansion of price controls, as well as an inquiry into the price-setting of major retailers.
Social protection measures and food distribution targeting adolescents in informal settlements are urgently needed.
South Africans have experienced significant shocks to their livelihoods, and the threat of hunger presents a major concern for health, political and social stability.
A new UN report shows that hunger and food insecurity are rising worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic is adding to this trend, but is not the major driver.
The urban poor in Bangladesh’s small cities already faced food insecurity before COVID-19 – but the lockdown made affording food much harder.
Civil society activists responding to the COVID-19 social crisis face important challenges and tensions. They should tackle these choices head-on as they develop longer-term plans.
Fast-food restaurants can be comforting places, but when they saturate communities, they crowd out healthy food sources and leave residents less nourished.
The judgment creates a new layer of uncertainty in an already highly fluid situation and heaps further unwelcome pressure onto government.
The hard truth is that the more the isolation is contained, the greater the economic problems will be.
When people are hungry or not sure where their next meal is coming from, they get angry at their governments. This gives terrorist groups opportunities to recruit new members.
More effort must go into building synergies between emergent local efforts and the government response.
For the second time this century, crises have led to calls to transform our global food system. We can start with restructuring the global food trade so that it complements local food systems.
Economic distress was the norm for many before the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic is an opportunity to provide an economically secure future for all.
More needs to be done to cushion low-income families from the economic effects of the new coronavirus.
Africa’s industries are not growing at the same pace as its cities, leaving the informal economy as the main source of income for many. COVID-19 lockdowns have cut this umbilical cord.
The clock is ticking: in the absence of government support, not being able to work means waste reclaimers don’t have money to buy food.
Since 2010 the number of Kenyans going hungry has been growing. The country now suffers from serious levels of hunger
Many households struggle when schools are closed.
The 17 goals seek to end all forms of poverty everywhere by 2030, by achieving 169 targets. Progress in achieving them does not match the hype.
Top contributors
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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
