Championing the war against hunger

Thinking nutrition: Giyose
Thinking nutrition: Giyose

With hunger it is sometimes a case of losing the battle for one to find a new way to win the war. At the forefront of this war is Boitshepo Giyose, senior nutrition officer for policy and programmes in the nutrition division at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in Rome, Italy. In an interview, she speaks to Mmegi Correspondent, Morongwa Phala-Goodwill at a local hotel during a visit home

Nearly 800 million people in the world are hungry. This translates to one in every nine people go without enough to eat. 

 As it is, hunger and malnutrition are the number one risks to health globally with each year seeing the death toll exceed those of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. 

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