One in 9 people are hungry or undernourished, and 1 in 3 adults are overweight or obese in the world. Progress in Eastern and Southern Africa is too slow, according to the latest ... Read more »

The southern region of Madagascar has been the hardest hit by drought for three consecutive years. It has been described by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) as a humanitarian ... Read more »

Africa is facing an increasingly complex range of interconnected challenges, impacting food and health systems and hindering progress made in fighting all forms of malnutrition. ... Read more »

The most derogatory remarks about what we eat are often linked with the urban space. For better or worse, cities are seen as the ultimate crossroads of food, nutritional and ... Read more »

An estimated 7.9 million people, including 4.1 million children, will urgently require humanitarian assistance in 2021, due to food insecurity, health crises, the impact of ... Read more »

The government's efforts to eradicate malnutrition, has seen it triple the funding it injects into the process, rising from U.S.$18 million to U.S.$56 million between 2015 and ... Read more »

A total of 2.61 million people or 27% of the population in rural Zimbabwe are facing severe food shortages, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) has said. In ... Read more »

Spotlight has produced When Kids Go Hungry, a six-part series looking at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on the nutritional status of children in South Africa. It ... Read more »

According to the UN World Food Programme, the world has been put on a heightened famine alert with a new report by two United Nations agencies that contains a stark warning; four ... Read more »

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 »