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The South African Constitution guarantees everyone the right to adequate food, basic nutrition for children and nutrition for those in detention or jail. (File photo)
ACCESS TO NUTRITIOUS FOOD

World Food Day 2024 | Coherent policies crucial for realisation of right to food

Policy, and the involvement of civil society and other stakeholders, is vital for rebalancing the food system and addressing undernutrition and obesity

  • Lisanne du Plessis
  • Scott Drimie
6 min read
Despite producing enough food, South Africa is experiencing a deepening hunger crisis. (Madelene Cronje)
BROKEN FOOD SYSTEM

World Food Day 2024 | South Africa’s broken food system needs an overhaul

For a equitable and prosperous future we need to guarantee the right to a nutritious diet from birth

  • Alan Browde
4 min read
S20 warns that climate change is endangering human health, food systems and ecosystems worldwide
FOOD POVERTY

The corporatisation of food in South Africa

We can only end hunger when people have control over what they eat and how that food is produced

  • Tshiamo Malatji
5 min read
Refiloe Molefe grows everything from spinach to green beans and carrots. She also makes juices and sells her produce. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG

Garden feeds hundreds in inner city Jo’burg

Hunger is widespread in SA and malnutrition affects children’s growth. Refiloe Molefe is doing her bit to change this with her food bank project

  • Jacques Coetzee 1
3 min read
S20 warns that climate change is endangering human health, food systems and ecosystems worldwide
ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT

The Agricultural Research Council promotes national food security

Unified, proactive action is required to push back the frontiers of poverty

  • Advertising Supplement
3 min read
Shameful legacy: Land dispossession, the destruction of indigenous food systems, the criminalisation of informal trade and the concentration of food production and distribution were deliberate, legal acts, the effects of which endure today. Photo: Madelene Cronje
COUNTRY

SA is food secure but millions of children are stunted

National dietary surveys estimate that 77% of children between the ages of six and 23 months do not receive a minimally acceptable diet

  • Ofentse Mboweni
4 min read
With more than 19-million children in South Africa, the majority are on child grants and more than 60% of them live in income poverty. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)
ATHANDIWE SABA

How two million children go hungry

The Child Gauge highlights that black children in single or no parent households fare the worst

  • Athandiwe Saba
3 min read
Responding to the Sowetan, Vavi said the latest complaint was made and resolved last year. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
EDUCATION CRISIS

Only a socialist economy will end poverty

We need a new programme that truly aims to bring about real economic transformation

  • Zwelinzima Vavi Author
6 min read