One in four children under five years old is stunted, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Mercy Mwangangi said at the national nutrition symposium in Nairobi. According to the ... Read more »

The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is marking the decade-long Feed the Future campaign, which enables partner organisations to target the root causes of ... Read more »

According to new data from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), more than 535,500 children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition. Of them, some 156,500 children are ... Read more »

The Covid-19 pandemic is exposing how Southern Africa's overreliance on high-cost imported seeds and fertilisers, and a lack of state investment in climate-resilient farming, are ... Read more »

Over 20,000 children have been forced to turn to illegal vending to supplement family incomes as Zimbabwe's economic situation continues to worsen, according to an assessment ... Read more »

Although Covid-19 could set back efforts to eliminate extreme poverty across the globe by anything between three and 10 years, there are signs of hope. The latest update of an ... Read more »

allAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in ... Read more »

President Muhammadu Buhari's administration has come in for strong criticism for continuing the school feeding scheme even though schools have been closed as COVID-19 spreads ... Read more »

Zimbabwe is one of 10 countries where fewer than 20% of children receive a minimally adequate diet, further compromising their lifelong quality of life, according to the latest ... Read more »

The World Food Programme has classified Zimbabwe as one of 18 countries in the world that will likely be worse off once the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic loosens its grip on ... Read more »