Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 11/2020

Healthy diets

A retailer in Burkina Faso sells Dutch products, including milk powder, in his small store.
Markets

Trade agreements as door-openers

Trade agreements secure lucrative markets for Big Food

Coca-Cola and other companies market their products aggressively in developing countries and emerging markets, as here in Nairobi, Kenya.
Food industry

Profit prioritised

Food manufacturers undermine healthy eating and promote malnutrition

Two men engulfed by locusts in Kenya’s Samburu County.
Food insecurity

As in biblical times

East Africa is living with the looming threat of a second invasion of desert locusts

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Global data

Poverty is worsening

Why the World Bank expects extreme poverty to increase dramatically this year

In a Durban township in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a woman collects a food parcel provided by a group fighting against hidden hunger.
Nutrient deficiency

Hunger without feeling hungry

Hidden hunger is a nutritional problem caused by a lack of vital vitamins, minerals and trace elements

Many farmers use very simple technology.
Agricultural diversification

Dethroning King Maize

Zambian government is reconsidering whether maize should remain country’s main staple food

Zimbabwe is suffering the third year of drought in a row.
Food security

The ravages of acute hunger

In Zimbabwe, people increasingly worry not what, but whether they will eat tomorrow

International NGO

Mother Earth’s food diversity

Slow Food is a global grassroots organisation, which was founded in Italy in 1989

Participants listening to community-garden instructor.
Traditional crops

Useful lessons

In Malawi, Slow Food campaigners are promoting the cultivation of traditional crops – and not only for health reasons

Fruit and vegetable market in Kampala, Uganda‘s capital.
Our view

Lack of awareness

In regard to healthy diets, all world regions need better education

A group of women has bought the harvest of a farmer in Haiti. They harvest the carrots and sell them at the surrounding markets.
Healthy nutrition

It’s all in the mix

Political will and raising public awareness are the basis for good nutrition

Ever more Brazilians are overweight: football fans in Porto Seguro in 2014.
Lifestyles

Facing a global challenge

Healthier diets would help to control Brazil’s obesity epidemic