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

Fortify Forward Innovation Challenge 2025 is a timely initiative that will address some of the most pressing malnutrition (micronutrient deficiency) concerns in the country.

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

According to the 2023 Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank, acute malnutrition is affecting ...

Western coastal areas of Yemen are on the verge of a catastrophe due to malnutrition, the United Nations children's agency ...

South African has the capability to feed the entire nation. But it is grappling with a triple burden of malnutrition, comprising under-nutrition and hunger, micronutrient deficiencies, and ...

Nigerian children make up 32 per cent of the world’s 31 million under five who are too short for their age. This is the ...

By Hippolyte FOFACK  Back in 2015, then-Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta warned the Pan-African Parliament about the dangers ...