{"id":5503,"date":"2019-09-20T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5503"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"why-africa-should-stop-eating-one-of-its-favorite-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/20\/why-africa-should-stop-eating-one-of-its-favorite-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Africa Should &#8216;Stop Eating One Of Its Favorite Foods&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By BBC Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zambia&#8217;s vice-president has called for a radical change\nin the eating habits of the nation, saying people should ditch the staple,\nmaize meal, for more nutritious foods &#8211; a proposal akin to telling Italians to\nstop eating pasta.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maize\nmeal is hugely popular across much of southern and East Africa &#8211; research shows\nthat&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mordorintelligence.com\/industry-reports\/african-maize-market\"><strong>sub-Saharan Africa\nconsumes 21% of the maize produced in the world.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zambian Vice-President\nInonge Wina&#8217;s appeal for a change in diet comes at a time when parts of her\ncountry and some neighboring states have been hit by poor rainfall and food\nshortages &#8211; a recurring problem caused, in part, by climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\ncrisis has led to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/zambia\/zambia-drought-and-increasing-food-insecurity-echo-daily-flash-31-august-2019\"><strong>1.7 million Zambians &#8211; or\n18% of the population &#8211; experiencing severe food insecurity<\/strong><\/a>, with about 40% of children under five years stunted,\naccording to the UN-linked Relief Web information portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To tackle the problem, Ms.\nWina said people needed to vary their diet by eating more millet, sorghum,\ncassava, and sweet potatoes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-49714037\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC Africa Zambia&#8217;s vice-president has called for a radical change in the eating habits of the nation, saying people should ditch the staple, maize meal, for more nutritious foods&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}