The study we conducted in partnership with Stellenbosch University on four neighbourhoods in Worcester set out to respond to two objectives: to describe the prevalence of stunting in children under five years of age by means of a cross-sectional survey, and to collect data on evidence-based drivers of stunting to inform locally relevant intervention design.

Grow Great conducted a study on pregnant CoCare voucher recipients, many of whom had experienced hunger, poor mental health, and economic insecurity in the months following the national lockdown that was imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19. Pregnancy is a time of increased vulnerability for mothers and their unborn children, who need nutritious food for a healthy pregnancy and a foundation for good growth respectively.

Eggs have been consumed throughout human history, though the full potential of this nutritionally complete food has yet to be realized in many resource-poor settings around the world…

This is the South Africa I know the home I understand through the lens of how we reproduce life by giving birth, regulate it through contraception, live it through education, work, accumulation and enjoyment of material and non-material resources…