Solutions to Food Insecurity
Food Security in South Africa

With people going hungry, children growing underdeveloped and obesity running rampant, it is no secret that we need to rethink the way we handle food. 

©Eric Miller

Looking at the way the global climate is changing and nutrient lacking produce we have access to, we need to change the way we grow and distribute food.

Various reports and organizations have put forward suggestions over the years on how to find solutions to the problems with food insecurity we’re facing. South Africa Online ® explores some of these solutions in terms of agriculture, nutrition, habits and city planning among others.

Alternative Ways to Grow More Food

The green revolution in the 1960s increased our agricultural yields significantly with its hybridised crops and artificial fertilisers....more

Cost Effective Interventions for Hunger and Malnutrition

The Copenhagen Consensus Centre is a think tank of leading economists who meet every four years to discuss what they regard as some of the w...more

Examining City Layout for Greater Food Security

The preoccupation with food gardens as the solution to hunger in the urban household tends to hand responsibility over to the individual to ...more

Fixing Our Cities and Our Climate

So, yes, the bad news is that our cities are making us fat and sick. The good news is that some of the buffers we need to ‘climate-proofâ€...more

Fixing Our Relationship with Food

It would be ideal if the solution to the region’s growing weight problems and associated ill health were simply a matter of signing everyo...more

Fortifying Staple Foods with Vitamins

Where the use of sprinkles is a targeted intervention, the fortification of staple foods with some of the key micronutrients is a blanket in...more

Ideal Diet Composition

On any given day, your food should add up to this: 55–75% of your daily calories should be made up of carbohydrates, 10–15% should come ...more

Micronutrient Sprinkles to Address Malnutrition

Food security is not just about the volume of food on the national plate – it is about whether people can get their hands on that food, wh...more

Mopping Up the Junk Food Mess

In many cities, it is the fast food joints that are working the current, hauling in throngs of passing students and locals who are eating on...more

Safety Nets for the Most Vulnerable

Usually the most vulnerable in a city-dwelling community are the disabled, the elderly and children. And for those who have no breadwinner i...more

Taking the Burden off the Department of Health

If we are serious about applying the brakes to the region’s careening poverty, then we need to drag the issue of nutrition out from under ...more

Targeting Children to Fix Poor Health

The argument that shifts the blame onto external factors in the built environment that make us fat should not mean Mr and Mrs Individual get...more

Why Urban Food Gardening is Not the Answer

Getting city dwellers to grow their own food is part of the solution to the hunger crisis. Urban food growing is also critical because it sh...more