News, comment and features on malnutrition, undernutrition and poor nutrition in the developing world
July 2024
Child malnutrition crisis in Nigeria amid rural violence and soaring food inflation
MSF says it is overwhelmed in country where 31.8 million people are suffering from hunger
June 2024
Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns
One in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet – report
Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies say
Children die of malnutrition as Rafah operation heightens threat of famine in Gaza
May 2024
Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries
Lucy Vincent
Inmates cook together, eat together – and sometimes even forage together. It puts Britain’s rat-infested facilities to shame, writes Lucy Vincent, chief executive of Food Behind Bars
April 2024
'I can't find food': despair in Gaza as children face malnutrition – video
Nuzha Awad tells the Guardian her triplets, born two months before the war, are severely malnourished after fleeing their home in Gaza City
March 2024
Famine is now probably present in Gaza, US says
Our unequal earth
Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?
Fresh blow for Rwanda deportation plan as report shows extreme poverty and hunger
Home Office food provision leaving some asylum seekers malnourished – report
February 2024
One in five pregnant women in Gaza clinic are malnourished, doctors warn
Inside the Darfur camp where a child dies every two hours
The manifesto Britain needs
The Tories have ruined our health. These are the three things Labour must do to repair the damage
Devi Sridhar
Free school meals ‘cut obesity and help reading skills’ in England, study finds
December 2023
Soaring malnutrition is a stain on British society
Hand to mouth: Britain's food poverty crisis
Surge in number of people in hospital with nutrient deficiencies, NHS figures show
November 2023
We call for urgent action to tackle food insecurity
Letter: Malnutrition takes the life of a child every 11 seconds. The upcoming food security summit will be an opportunity to change that, write the heads of faith-based charities
‘Stop this obscenity’: could key UK summit turn tide on world hunger?
Andrew Mitchell wants next week’s food security conference to find ways to tackle waste and pests – and to show that aid works
A common condition
Global health and environmental costs of food industry are $10tn a year – UN
‘Price tag’ of non-communicable diseases, malnutrition, poverty and harm to planet is 10% of global GDP, says UN food agency
