Using simple behavioural science models can help programmes to understand people’s lives and how to design nutrition interventions that directly benefit them.
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Articles on Malnutrition
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The insecurity in the area has serious implications for development and the well-being of people, especially young people.
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.
Children who need help most tend to experience adversity throughout childhood. That continuing adversity muffles the benefit of improved early nutrition.
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.
Raw veganism may have more risks than benefits.
Since the war broke out, some healthcare workers have lost their jobs, others have been displaced, wounded, threatened or killed.
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 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.
Problems caused by malnutrition - such as obesity - are on the rise in South Africa, with serious health consequences.
Environmental catastrophe, war, a worldwide pandemic. What does this mean for feeding the world today and in the future?
In spite of policies aimed at tackling food inflation, food prices in Nigeria have continued to rise.
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.
Top contributors
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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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Director DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Wollongong
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Lecturer in Comparative Human Biology, University of Cambridge
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Associate professor at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Principle dietitian at the Nutrition Information Centre, Stellenbosch University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer in Global Health, UNSW Sydney
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Post-doctoral fellow, University of British Columbia
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Surrey
