Food security in Southern Africa is under threat. Later this month, the Institute for International Research will present its inaugural Food Security Summit, dedicated to tackling this issue.

Chances are that a number of food-based and environmental stressors are adversely affecting your health, putting pressure on your biological function and taxing you away from your optimum health potential.

Genetically modified food gets consumed by billions of people across the globe. Please do what this incredible young man did and find out how your food is prepared before supporting a product. If an 11-year-old is brave enough to stand up and talk about this, then the rest of us have no excuse.

When the small British mill town of Todmorden, tucked in between Yorkshire and Lancashire, first began installing fruit and vegetable gardens all around the area as part of the Incredible Edible program, it likely had no idea that the novel, yet simple, concept would make the town a foremost inspirational and self-sustaining model of the future.

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Earlier this week a report entitled Exploring the Impact of Climate Change on Children in South Africa was launched by the Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana, at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria.

The age-old and currently resurging culture of providing your pets with natural home-made food  is shrouded in misperceptions. These are carefully crafted by large marketing budgets of the influential multi-national pet food industry, out to stop this return to common sense.

A leather shoe or rump steak are both rich in protein. A metal nail or spinach, rich in iron. Which is more nutritious? A spectrum of multi-vitamins from the pharmacy or Granny€™s Sunday roast of chicken, sweet potato, veggies and salad. Both are balanced in minerals and vitamins, but which is more nutritious? In the pet food industry a healthy nutritious meal is determined by its balance.

We in Southern Africa have had our honeybees since time immemorial. Among the !Kung clans, an old and well-managed hive was cared for as a family treasure and passed down to the next generation, and theft of honey was considered a capital crime.

Australian veterinarian and author, Dr. Ian Billinghurst maintains that 'dogs fare best when fed a natural, unprocessed, raw diet based on bones, meat and vegetables.`

Four legs or two, is there really a difference? Do our four legged companions have different nutritional needs? All beings rely on nutrition for their well-being, health and longevity.

In the face of rising food prices, malnutrition, obesity and poor land management, schools in the Eastern Cape are taking a stand. From the 3rd to the 7th of October, a Permaculture workshop run by School€™s Environmental Education and Development (SEED) took place at Project Lulutho, a burgeoning educational hub and resource centre in the centre of the Xhosa community of Mthwaku, 120km north of East London.

A new documentary, Food Fore-Thought (an IZWA production), sets out to open our eyes to the broad scope of possibilities around the growing and production of the food we eat. It also enlightens the viewer about the need to stand up for one of our most basic human rights €“ the right to safe, nutritious food that heals, and harms none.

A midleading British study had overlooked the last 40 years of field trials and research which prove the superiority of organics and confused many consumers. It had claimed there is little benefit to eating organic food and was also aired locally in the media, but it was criticised for being methodologically flawed...

Wrinkles, memory loss and degenerative disease don't have to happen. By making healthy changes to your diet and lifestyle you reduce the unnecessary stress on your body and slow the ageing process - whether you're in your 20s or 80s.