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.

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 ...

By Hippolyte FOFACK\xa0Back in 2015, then-Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta warned the Pan-African Parliament about the dangers of development assistance. “The future of our continent cannot be left to ...

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

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 ...

Unlocking capital to Africa's small-scale farmers through subsidies, blended finance and insurance will boost productivity, household incomes and resilience to external shocks such as natural ...