The outlook on food products prices will remain mixed, despite the recent broad increase in products prices.
The event celebrates 40 years of the city’s design scene. The 2022 edition brings together fashion folk, beer culture, architecture and greenery, while giving visitors their cultural fix
The event celebrates 40 years of the city’s design scene. The 2022 edition brings together fashion folk, beer culture, architecture and greenery, while giving visitors their cultural fix
The event celebrates 40 years of the city’s design scene. The 2022 edition brings together fashion folk, beer culture, architecture and greenery, while giving visitors their cultural fix
The World Health Organisation dismisses the “five second rule” as part of drive to prevent illness and death from bad food
Indulging in delicious, sugary food is a delight but the consequences are being tired, breathless, lethargic and bloated — especially for a diabetic
Hunger and obesity are symptoms of the same problem. Activist Raj Patel’s latest film follows a Malawian farmer as she cares for the Earth while growing crops
Celebrate the African ‘year of nutrition’ by getting stuck into some of the tastiest food the continent can dish up.
If you had the opportunity to explore South Africa, to really see it, be confused by it, fall in love with the good, bad and the ugly, where would you start? Think of the last trip you took, local or international. Can you truthfully say that you know that city, its people, the food and […]
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
Between 1970 and 2016, the stock of natural capital on the continent fell on average by 65%, driven largely by land-use change, but Africa can lead the world by putting nature at the heart of finance
Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara is about the presence of resources, especially phosphates that make up 72% of the world’s reserves. Phosphate is used in fertiliser, a key element in agriculture, giving Morocco a tight grip over world food production.
We will have a poorer harvest than the glowing 2020-21 harvest, but will probably not have to import supplies
Food systems lack resilience in the face of crisis and that feed crises of their own making, driving climate change and fuelling epidemics of hunger, malnutrition, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases
The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it
Young people, of which the continent has many, could be key to innovating intelligent technology solutions that help farmers produce food efficiently
Higher international oil prices, for example, could affect local transport costs through second-round effects
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Every child deserves the chance to grow up well-nourished and reach their full potential
Many of the risk factors for mental and weight disorders are not simple to change. Knowing about the good effects of foods, which we can control, is very powerful
Soup for the Sick is nourishing hundreds of people too ill to cook for themselves
Award-winning chef and local legend Dorah Sitole, who spent years as the editor and food editor at True Love magazine, celebrates a culinary journey to savour through her latest book, 40 Years of Iconic Food
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In the book, The Indian Africans, academic Kiru Naidoo explores the society of colonial Natal in the late 1800s to early 1900
Culinary activists such as Zayaan Khan and Tapiwa Guzha are prompting us to revisit and reclaim familiar, familial and traditional identities
The pandemic could mean collective re-evaluation of healthy and cost-effective eating and also highlights how companies need to be even more connected to the consumer
Despite the strain of lockdown, some restaurateurs are keeping bellies full
A journalist from Sierra Leone has to teach himself to cook during lockdown in Johannesburg
The recent addition of cookbooks by black authors to mainstream bookstore shelves reflects the demand for South African food and cooking culture in the country.
Makenete has a wealth of experience in the agricultural sector
Delhi’s food — from the street fare to fine dining — stirs together what the ruling party seeks to divide: people across class, religion and caste
Food apartheid is causing increasing rates of noncommunicable diseases among low-income black women
Local members of the Slow Food movement are working to save traditional ingredients
Starches have been dietary staples for even longer than we thought