How much would you expect to pay for the most basic plate of food? The kind of thing you might whip up at home - nothing fancy, just enough to fill you up and meet a third of ... Read more »

Borno State, one of the three North-Eastern states in Nigeria currently recovering from an insurgency, surprisingly has better immunization coverage numbers than several other ... Read more »

"Breast milk offers all the antibodies a baby needs; some 823,000 child deaths could be prevented each year by near universal breastfeeding, yet marketing companies' outlays dwarf ... Read more »

Halima Sheikh Ali is the proud owner of one of the few ATMs in Wajir town in northeast Kenya. But rather than doling out shilling notes, it dispenses something tastier: a fresh ... Read more »

Food waste is a global problem, this video series looks at some solutions. Read more »

If a person is food secure it typically means that sufficient quality food is available, they have enough resources to buy food for a nutritious diet and they have stable access to ... Read more »

A new study in the Democratic Republic of Congo found that treating women subsistence farmers with just a single dose of a cheap deworming medication, significantly improved their ... Read more »

Years of violence and unrest in the country have displaced more than 4.5 million people, creating widespread poverty and hunger. The UN has said that over two million children are ... Read more »

With South Sudan's harvest season coming to an end and the dry season fast approaching, Abuk Moukiir is exhausted and hungry, taking longer rests in the shade of a nearby tree ... Read more »

In the south of the island, where many people farm for a living, the rainy season is getting shorter and shorter, they say. Rains that once stretched from October to March now fall ... Read more »