Diversifying food sources and developing underused, nutrient-rich crops could help combat malnutrition and enhance food ...

The World Bank set its US 'dollar-a-day' poverty line using its 1990 data. Despite many doubts and criticisms, its poverty numbers fell until the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020.

Childhood stunting from malnutrition is a global but preventable problem if adequate investment can be found, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday, amid chronic funding shortages that ...

The Nigerian government has followed through on its promise and increased its budgetary provisions for nutrition programmes, with a significant 33.7% increase in the 2025 proposed budget, from N127.24 ...

The death in early February of a 9-year-old South African boy, Alti Willard, who drank poison while scavenging for food in ...

IFAD President Alvaro Lario noted that smallholder farms are the foundation of global nutrition Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans The United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural ...

This steep rise in daily costs, combined with stagnant wages, creates immense challenges for South African families.

This development comes as the two-day high-level Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit Kicks off today March 27th 2025 in Paris, France. The summit is expected to attract delegates from across the world ...

The East Africa region has been grappling with some of the worst ... The country is seeing a sharp rise in food insecurity, which has contributed to an increase in malnutrition cases. In 2023, nearly ...

Today, at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit in Paris, the European Commission announced a new pledge of €3.4 billion ...

Programmes to help prevent malnourishment in children in Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria could be suspended within months if ...

She highlighted how sharp US funding cuts are reversing decades of progress in fighting malnutrition. "Those hard-earned gains are being rolled back," she said, citing sudden, unannounced ...