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South Africa’s national survey of food and nutrition security identifies the areas most in need.
Want to stay active and healthy in later life? Food fortification and strength and balance training could help improve quality of life for older adults
The president’s speech couldn’t cover up for the fact that the last five years have been among the most difficult for ordinary South Africans.
As global acute food insecurity increases, severe wasting — which already affects 13.6 million children — is expected to rise with it. Treating wasting requires specialized nutrition and medical care.
Like most weight-loss programs, the OMAD diet makes bold promises – and comes with risks.
The birth rate was lower and the death rate markedly higher in areas outside government control in the Central African Republic.
TB is the single most deadly infectious killer of humankind. New research shows food and proper nutrition work like a vaccine against the disease.
Failing to understand what communities consider important greatly diminishes the responsiveness of policies to the actual needs of individuals.
Using simple behavioural science models can help programmes to understand people’s lives and how to design nutrition interventions that directly benefit them.
The insecurity in the area has serious implications for development and the well-being of people, especially young people.
A researcher at Tufts University near Boston discovered an old book full of research on starvation written by Jewish doctors imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Children who need help most tend to experience adversity throughout childhood. That continuing adversity muffles the benefit of improved early nutrition.
The human population has doubled in 48 years, and worsening climate change has left the world facing serious health risks, from infectious diseases to hunger and heat stress.
Raw veganism may have more risks than benefits.
Since the war broke out, some healthcare workers have lost their jobs, others have been displaced, wounded, threatened or killed.
A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
The story behind the research can be as compelling as the results. Recording the effects of starvation, a group of Jewish doctors demonstrated their dedication to science – and their own humanity.
Problems caused by malnutrition - such as obesity - are on the rise in South Africa, with serious health consequences.
Environmental catastrophe, war, a worldwide pandemic. What does this mean for feeding the world today and in the future?
Top contributors
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Director DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer | Global Health, UNSW
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
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Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Practice, Human Sciences Research Council
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researcher, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Principle dietitian at the Nutrition Information Centre, Stellenbosch University
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Post-doctoral fellow, University of British Columbia
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Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
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Lecturer in Comparative Human Biology, University of Cambridge
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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute