Cyclone Idai washed away the crops that survived a savage drought, leaving 70% of the population in dire need of food.
Go inside this unspoken ethical dilemma South African doctors face every day.
A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.
Mali’s most fertile region is also its most malnourished. But that is changing
The substance is critical in pregnancy and in the development of children; a lack of it has dire consequences.
Poor handling practices as well as storage, cooking equipment and fridges – and rats – increase the risk of food poisoning.
Malnutrition contributes to almost half of all child deaths globally but receives 1% of foreign aid.
As humanitarian organisations sound the alarm over high malnutrition rates among Malawi’s prisoners, one woman is trying to help keep inmates alive.
The conflict has left health services and agriculture in shambles. Unicef says it has just 13% of the money it needs to stave off deaths.
Malnutrition is a leading cause of death in under-fives, but there’s a simple — and free — solution that could save lives.
‘Sixty-one critically malnourished people were among 478 children, 196 women and 23 men brought to the state capital Maiduguri from Bama on Monday’
A quarter of the world’s overweight children live in Africa, amounting to almost the same number as wasting minors.
Studies show that feeding programmes at schools not only reduce stunting, but also combat obesity and lead to increased enrolment in schools.
Almost half of Madagascan children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition, yet less than 0.5% of the national budget is spent on the problem.
A change in mind-set is required because feeding schemes alone cannot put an end to malnutrition.
Most South Africans can’t afford nutritious meals and the state is letting school-food schemes down.
South Africa’s children are bearing the brunt of increasing food prices – and the effects may be permanent.
Hidden hunger, also known as vitamin and mineral deficiencies, impacts more than two-billion people with often devastating consequences.
Around 14-million South Africans cannot afford enough food to feed their families. Join the M&G’s R6-a-day food challenge on Thursday, October 16.
Malnutrition is killing South Africa’s children, yet half of the country’s fresh produce is wasted.
Survey by Save the Children highlights the devastating effects of malnutrition and predicts a disaster if the situation isn’t remedied.
Obesity and stunting are both products of the nutrient-deficient food in our supermarkets.
<b>Phillippe Latour</b> travels to the Zinder region, in eastern Niger, to talk to communities most affected by bad harvests and malaria.
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/ 15 February 2011
Five-year-old Fatime Owye’s emaciated body evokes memories of famines such as those in 1980s Ethiopia.
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/ 7 December 2010
Africans are not eating enough fruit and vegetables, a critical problem on a continent where obesity, diabetes and heart disease are very concerning.
Each year, over 3,5-million children under the age of five die of malnutrition, which affects one out of every three people on earth.
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/ 14 January 2009
SMS technology is now being used by health workers in Africa to monitor nutrition levels in their communities.