August 02

• Africa - Poverty, Hunger Attributed to Decline in Agriculture

  Vanguard

  Dr Kanayo Nwanze, the President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has identified the decline in agriculture as the cause of hunger and poverty in Africa which... Read more »

• Poor Plastic Feeding Bottles Causing Cancer in Children - Expert

  Daily News

  THE increasing use of substandard plastic feeding bottles has contributed to a rise in the number of cancer cases in children aged below 20 years. Read more »

• Ghana Coalition of Civil Society Organisations for Scaling Up Nutrition Launched in Accra [press release]

  Ghana Govt.

  The Co-chairman of the Ghana Parliamentarians Against Hunger and Malnutrition Caucus, Hon. Kwabena Appiah Pinkrah, has pledged to work through legislation and advocacy to... Read more »

• Multi-Million Euro Project Seeks to Enhance Food Security, Reduce Poverty

  Daily Observer

  A Millennium Development Goal 1c (MDG1C) Initiative Project, financed by the European Union through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture... Read more »

• Breast Feeding Mothers Encouraged to Have Special Diet

  The Star

  Breast feeding mothers should maintain a balanced diet to ensure their baby says healthy. Health experts also advise nursing mothers to avoid sugary carbonated drinks as this could... Read more »

• Bad Habits That Are Actually Good for You

  Capital FM

  We burp, we sleep in for 13 hours over the weekend, we bite our nails, we crack our knuckles... We all have bad habits. Some habits we can try and kick out and some habits... Read more »

August 01

• Breastfeeding Is the Cheapest and Most Effective Life-Saver in History - Unicef

  Concord

  During World Breastfeeding Week starting today, Unicef is focusing on breastfeeding as the most effective and inexpensive way of saving a child's life. But with less than half of... Read more »

• Helping Africa to Help Itself - the Ideology of Food [analysis]

  SACSIS

  Just as Chicken Little is convinced that the sky is going to fall on his head, the constant repetition of the scaremongering trope that we are under collective, imminent threat of... Read more »

• New Step to Enhance Regional Food and Nutrition Security [press release]

  ECA

  All the regional economic communities and intergovernmental organizations in Eastern Africa have launched a new initiative aimed at enhancing cooperation in the area of food and... Read more »

• Did You Know Eating Tomatoes Can Kill You?

  Capital FM

  Naturally sweet, tart and savoury - many enjoy the juicy tomato. Filled with minerals and vitamins, tomatoes add a great deal of nutrition to any meal. But did you know eating... Read more »

• Focus On What Children With Disabilities Can Do

  The Star

  Communities should focus on what children with disabilities can do rather than what they cant.According to UNICEF's annual state of the world's children's report,inclusiveness and... Read more »

July 31

• Gov't Praised for Attention to Food Safety, Quality - As New Food Authority Begins Operations

  Daily Observer

  The director general of the Food Safety and Quality Authority (FSQA) has hailed the government of The Gambia for its decision to revamp the legal and institutional framework for... Read more »

• Legon Students Reject 'School Feeding Program'

  Ghanaian Chronicle

  The Students' Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Ghana, Legon, has rejected a proposal made by the management of the university to introduce what has come to be... Read more »

• Nutrition in Zambia - On the Cusp? a Call for Abstracts [guest blog]

  IDS

  Zambia is the next in the IDS series of country-focused collections of papers on undernutrition. Read more »

July 30

• 86,000 Children Cured of Malnutrition in Jigawa State

  Daily Trust

  The Jigawa State government said yesterday that over 86, 000 children with severe cases of malnutrition have been cured. Read more »

• Standing Up to Malnutrition

  Times of Zambia

  MALNUTRITION has continued to be the major killer of not just children under the age of five, but all age groups. Read more »

• Malnutrition - Jigawa Treats 86,000 Children

  Vanguard

  The Jigawa Government has treated 86,000 children suffering from malnutrition in the last three years, the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Lawal Abdu, said in Dutse on... Read more »

July 29

• Get the Key Data On Hunger and Undernutrition [guest blog]

  IDS

  The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) today published the first installment in a new series which presents key data on government commitment to reduce hunger and... Read more »

• Acute Food Shortage to Hit Krobo State

  Ghanaian Chronicle

  An impending acute food shortage would hit the Krobo State, which is made up of the Yilo, Lower Municipality and Upper Manya Krobo Districts of the Eastern Region, following a... Read more »

• APs Give Food to Hungry Children

  The Star

  Bungoma ADMINSTRATION Police at the weekend donated food to several Children Homes in the county. Read more »

• Foods That Boost Your Libido

  Capital FM

  Do you find yourself a little too tired towards bedtime that all you want to do is sleep? Like sleeping is way better than sex any day? Like sex should be struck off the marital... Read more »

July 28

• Museveni Calls for Law to Regulate Nutritionists

  New Vision

  He pointed out that Uganda has lots of fake Nutritionists and dieticians who give wrong nutrition messages to patients in hospitals, clinics, TV and Radios. Read more »

July 27

• IDS Transforming Nutrition Summer School 2013 - Debates and Reflections [guest blog]

  IDS

  Well, that was intense, but fun. I'm talking about he the IDS Summer School on Transforming Nutrition. The 25 participants are shown above. About half from high burden countries... Read more »

• Reasons Behind Increased Abdominal Gas or Bloats [column]

  New Times

  At one time I sat nearby a professor of economics on a trip from Huye District in the Southern Province and after 20 minutes on the road, I started to sense a rather foul smell in... Read more »

July 26

• Study Reveals How Hunger 'Stunts' African Economies

  WFP

  The high cost of child malnutrition in Swaziland was showcased at the launch of the latest country-level study in the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) series on 18 July. Read more »