Are the British and Irish really world-beating fruit and veg eaters? I doubt it
Devi Sridhar
As a public health expert, I’m sorry to say that recent eye-catching claims about our diets are probably misleading, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University
November 2023
Lunch is served: meet the team behind Nairobi’s vast school meals kitchen
As the Kenyan city sleeps, chefs, cleaners, drivers and loaders get to work preparing 60,000 meals to serve children as part of the largest school meals programme in Africa
October 2023
Our unequal earth
Orgy of sugar: how school donations turned my free pantry into a junk-food fever dream
MS Swaminathan, ‘visionary’ father of India’s green revolution, dies at 98
How food companies ‘sweetened the world’ – and increased the risk of disease
June 2023
Our unequal earth
‘A gastronomic experience’: the US schools serving local veggies and edible flowers over frozen food
With locally grown Valencia oranges, watermelon radish and broccolini, kids enjoy nutritious meals – while small farmers and the community also benefit
July 2022
Opinion
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
May 2022
The US is running out of baby formula: yet more evidence that new mothers can never win
Emma Brockes
Seascape: the state of our oceans
Millions of tonnes of dead animals: the growing scandal of fish waste
February 2022
Don’t drink milk? Here’s how to get enough calcium and other nutrients
Tofu, tinned salmon, and almonds can all serve as bone-boosters – even without milk in your diet
January 2022
Other lives
Peter Greaves obituary
Other lives: Unicef nutrition officer whose initiatives reduced infant mortality in Brazil
August 2021
Sugary UK children’s yoghurts named and shamed by researchers
Call to ban child-friendly packaging and misleading claims to tackle childhood obesity
December 2020
‘We could have lost her’: Zimbabwe's children go hungry as crisis deepens
Heart disease, cancer and diabetes among biggest killers of 2019, says WHO
June 2020
'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
May 2020
Photographing the pandemic
'The virus comes for us': capturing the Covid-19 crisis facing Egypt's poor
Where India’s government has failed in the pandemic, its people have stepped in
Bharati Ramachandran
April 2020
‘They are starving’: women in India’s sex industry struggle for survival
'Millions hang by a thread': extreme global hunger compounded by Covid-19
