Diets in sub-Saharan Africa are changing as more countries advance from low-income to middle-income status. People's eating habits are shifting from food rich in starchy staples, ... Read more »
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says that the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray province is stripping tens of thousands of children of their rights, plunging them ... Read more »
Pumwani Hospital has the country's first and only breastmilk bank. It was set up in 2019 to help pre-term babies whose mothers had died or were not present, full-term babies who ... Read more »
A study has shown that despite the Zimbabwe government's efforts to put in place several food and nutrition policies, setting up institutional frameworks to facilitate food and ... Read more »
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 »
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