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Why Khulisa is South Africa’s next big step in tackling malnutrition

The link between nutrition and education is undeniable – a hungry child cannot learn effectively, and a malnourished child faces lifelong disadvantages. The Tiger Brands…

South Africa must treat the conditions that breed diabetes, including by making healthy food affordable. Photo: File

Diabetes is a disease that thrives on inequity

South Africa must treat the conditions that breed diabetes, including by making healthy food affordable

Understanding Registered Dietitians and Nutritionists In South Africa

In South Africa, you can only call yourself a dietitian or nutritionist if you are registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) under the Professional…

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Meals at early childhood development centres can help meet basic nutritional needs

But these ECD centres, which often provide children with their only meal for the day, need additional financial and other support to ensure the food is nutritious

Basic education minister, Siviwe Gwarube. (Lefty Shivambu/Gallo)

It’s about the children, Minister Gwarube

The basic education minister should end the decentralised school nutrition programme and adopt a centralised approach

Drug testing policies must comply with the law, as well as be fair and respectful of employees’ rights, protecting both them and the company. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Bricks and biofuels: Cannabis can grow South Africa

Two promising uses of hemp are the manufacturing of “green” biofuels and the building of low-cost and sustainable housing

An eight-month-old child receives high nutrition foods at Tawkal 2 Dinsoor camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Baidoa, Somalia, on February 14, 2022. Insufficient rainfall since late 2020 has come as a fatal blow to populations already suffering from a locust invasion between 2019 and 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic. For several weeks, humanitarian organizations have multiplied alerts on the situation in the Horn of Africa, which raises fears of a tragedy similar to that of 2011, the last famine that killed 260,000 people in Somalia. – Desperate, hungry and thirsty, more and more people are flocking to Baidoa from rural areas of southern Somalia, one of the regions hardest hit by the drought that is engulfing the Horn of Africa. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Investing in nutrition is a crucial step in improving children’s rights

Extending the child support grant into pregnancy will play a vital role in combating stunting and improving the prospects of children in South Africa

More than a quarter of children under five in South Africa are affected by stunting

Eradicating childhood stunting should be a priority in SA

Poor basic service delivery is linked to children’s poor nutrition

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Covid children’s project teaches crucial lessons

Early childhood development programmes can provide crucial services with the correct support

South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain.  (File photo)

Poor nutrition is a weak foundation for a nation with big dreams

Every child deserves the chance to grow up well-nourished and reach their full potential

Relieved: Nomthandazo Makhubela is happy that all grades are now back at school. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Open schools mean full tummies as feeding schemes resume

About four in five learners in the country’s poorest schools rely on the one meal they receive at school, but they weren’t able to get it for more than four months, during which…

The WHO and the United Nations (UN) celebrated World Food Safety Day on 7 June, with the 2022 theme, “Safer Food, Better Health”.

Our relationship with food locked down

The pandemic could mean collective re-evaluation of healthy and cost-effective eating and also highlights how companies need to be even more connected to the consumer

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South Africa’s invisible majority: Women feeding hungry families

Sit up, take notice and get angry that a third of South African households have R120 or less a person a week for food, let alone nutritious food

Interventions such as immediate food relief and raising awareness are needed to address both undernutrition and obesity

With no nutritional reserves, Covid-19 will push people over the edge

With South Africa under lockdown, many South Africans are hungry — and very soon persistent hunger will dramatically increase malnutrition

The provincial education department has delayed handing over tender documents to the SIU since February Photo: Supplied

Pairing learning with food is a winning recipe

Much more support of homemade nutrition programmes is needed to ensure gaps are filled

Managing director of Danone Southern Africa, Hendrik Born

​Danone accepts the HAKSA challenge

HAKSA challenges all of us to help promote healthy behaviours among the youth

Through projects like Bokone, the NLC is able to catalyse action in communities

The Bokone Community Home-Based Care and Early Childhood Development project

Bokone provides critical services to its beneficiaries, many of whom are vulnerable individuals living in challenging conditions

A rooftop greenhouse in Johannesburg’s CBD. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

City buildings sprout urban gardens

Slowly Jo’burg’s city centre is changing how it is supplied with food as greenhouses go up on its skyline

To develop small and medium enterprises

South Africa, where education creates shared value

Enel Green Power believes that education is one of the fundamental elements for the socioeconomic development of any community

Many womxn who live and work on farms have suffered immensely during the Covid-19 lockdown. (Rogan Ward/Reuters)

Scientists confirm what women always knew: Men really are the weaker sex

In times of famine, epidemic and hardship over the past 250 years, women have consistently outlived men, find researchers