Refining wheat, maize and rice removes their nutritional value, which contributes to preventable diseases such as strokes, diabetes and obesity
The G7 has wrongly blamed the looming crisis on blocked Ukraine exports, which are far smaller than Russia’s global share of fertiliser and food exports
With food and petrol prices rocketing, impoverished people sacrifice nutritious food for starches that keep them full, leaving children malnourished and adults prone to disease
As India and South Africa push for relief at the World Trade Organisation through intellectual property rights waivers, India’s history of getting concessions may be the…
President Jacob Zuma says that the Land Holdings Bill does not affect foreign nationals who are planning to buy homes for residences in South Africa.
Available data suggests the claim that 12 Africans die of hunger every minute – recently made by a Nepad adviser – is exaggerated.
As financial troubles plague the World Food Programme, the future of the mouths it feeds in the Democratic Republic of Congo is at threat.
Aid is needed to feed more than two million people as the government runs out of maize reserves.
Zimbabwe is facing a food crisis with one in four people in rural areas at risk of hunger in 2014, the highest number in half a decade, says the UN.
The world’s first laboratory-grown beef burger has been flipped out of a petri dish and into a frying pan.
A decision by Zambia’s president to slash a key food subsidy threatens to hit the poor, stoke inflation and spark a revolt against his government.
About 1.6-million Zimbabweans, most of them in rural areas, urgently need food aid because of low rainfall and a drop in agricultural production.
Lesotho’s declaration of a food emergency in August went fairly unnoticed in South Africa, but make no mistake: this is an emergency.
It is time for farmers around the world to sound the alarm on climate change, writes Jay Naidoo.
Urgent aid is needed and relief agencies want more durable solutions.
Extreme weather and market forces have affected the price of food worldwide, from tomatoes in Israel to cabbage in South Korea.
Tens of thousands of animals across Niger have died in the last few months; literally starving to death.
In a disaster predicted months ago by aid agencies, Africa’s Sahel region is lurching towards a food crisis which the world has only weeks to avert.
One in six people across the world are hungry, the International Fund for Agricultural Development has revealed.
Workshops highlight pros and cons of genetically modified agriculture, writes Jacklynne Hobbs.
