African governments must acknowledge the universal right to diverse and nutritious food if they are to end malnutrition. Five projects show how this can be done.
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A country of plenty like Australia should be able to ensure no one is denied their right to adequate food. But food insecurity is on the rise, and we aren’t even properly monitoring the problem.
Removing a pre-existing right like cancelling the school nutrition programme is a retrogressive measure, and should only be done under very specific circumstances.
Kenya’s urban poor lack enough food and the little they can afford is often unsafe and of poor nutritional value.
Hunger affects people’s health. It also affects their dignity and their ability to live full and productive lives.
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Associate Professor of Health Equity, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Nutrition Dietetics & Food, Monash University
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Public Health, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health (Nutrition), Edith Cowan University
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Communications Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cape Town
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
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PhD candidate with the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape
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Senior Lecturer, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
