Browsing: Nutrition

Food systems are a major contributor to exceeding planetary boundaries1,2,3 and poor quality diets are a key mortality risk globally4. Projected population and income growth could exacerbate these challenges5. In response, there are calls for transformation towards healthy and sustainable food systems6,7,8. However, the scale and distribution of the impacts of this transformation on agriculture are…

Researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT) are calling for urgent action to tackle South Africa’s worsening child malnutrition crisis. Drawing on more than two decades of research, they outline how malnutrition undermines children’s health and development and present five policy recommendations to improve nutrition and safeguard future generations