Nutrition and development

The UN wants to educate children – it will succeed only if it feeds them first | Kevin Watkins

Millions have missed out on education during the pandemic, and school meals programmes are another Covid casualty

Kevin Watkins

25, Jul, 2022 @5:30 AM

The US is running out of baby formula: yet more evidence that new mothers can never win | Emma Brockes

Women have breastfed for thousands of years and yet there are still those who think we can just ‘switch on’ our milk, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes

19, May, 2022 @8:00 AM

Millions of tonnes of dead animals: the growing scandal of fish waste

Dumped at sea, lost on land or left to rot in shops and fridges, the global catch of fish is being wasted like never before – hurting not only the oceans but the nutrition of billions of people. Can it be reversed?

Emma Bryce

09, May, 2022 @5:15 AM

Peter Greaves obituary

Other lives: Unicef nutrition officer whose initiatives reduced infant mortality in Brazil

Neville Grant

31, Jan, 2022 @11:52 AM

Sugary UK children’s yoghurts named and shamed by researchers

Call to ban child-friendly packaging and misleading claims to tackle childhood obesity

Rachel Hall

19, Aug, 2021 @5:01 AM

‘We could have lost her’: Zimbabwe's children go hungry as crisis deepens

As food shortages worsen due to drought and the economic insecurity of lockdown, one in three children are malnourished

Nyasha Chingono in Harare

15, Dec, 2020 @6:30 AM

Heart disease, cancer and diabetes among biggest killers of 2019, says WHO

Seven noncommunicable diseases caused nearly half of deaths last year, with unhealthy lifestyles and environments partly to blame

Kate Hodal

10, Dec, 2020 @7:15 AM

'I know they aren't healthy': the energy drink craze sweeping Afghanistan

From children in Kabul to Taliban chiefs, the sweet, caffeine-heavy drinks are wildly popular, defying fears on nutrition

Stefanie Glinski in Kabul

05, Jun, 2020 @9:15 AM

Where India’s government has failed in the pandemic, its people have stepped in

Civil society has outperformed the state in helping to feed India’s poorest. It should be seen as ally not enemy

Bharati Ramachandran

05, May, 2020 @5:30 AM

‘They are starving’: women in India’s sex industry struggle for survival

Exclusion from government Covid-19 relief has left many reliant on private food donations, as fears raised over protection from transmission after lockdown

Reshmi Chakraborty and Hema Ramaprasad

29, Apr, 2020 @6:45 AM