Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:07:59 +0000 GLOBALISATION has been both a blessing and a curse to developing countries such as Zambia. On the one hand we have never seen so many different products and services available to citizens, now also known as “consumers”. Such excess is not evenly shared throughout society, however, particularly among the nation’s poorest. That surplus is definitely not healthy in the large doses enjoyed by the nation’s rich elites. According to Hivos Southern Africa regional advocacy manager for sustainable foods, Henry Mulenga, Zambia is facing a double burden of malnutrition and obesity. Put simply, we are faced with a double-barreled shotgun: one barrel loaded with the nation’s poor, 40 percent of whom exhibit stunted growth due to malnutrition, while the other barrel is filled with the well-off, 23 percent of whom are obese. The gap between rich and poor could not be more clearly demonstrated than the contrast between stunted and […]
