MALNUTRITION: Broken promises — how SA’s National Food and Nutrition Security Plan missed the mark

Daily Maverick · 2026-10-09T00:55:45.000Z · Politics

Despite ambitions to combat hunger and malnutrition, South Africa’s National Food and Nutrition Security Plan (2018-2023) fell short of its goals. From stalled governance bodies and funding shortages to fragmented monitoring systems and provincial bottlenecks, this analysis shows where it did deliver, and where it did not.

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