Every year, thousands of children across Ghana face the harsh realities of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), a condition that weakens their immunity, disrupts growth, affects brain development, and puts their lives at risk. While families often strive to provide the best they can, the rising cost of food, inadequate dietary diversity, and limited access to…
In bustling markets across Ghana, traders call out over heaps of rice, yam, and maize. For many households, these staples represent security which is proof that no one will go to bed hungry. Yet behind this apparent abundance lies a hidden crisis: hidden hunger, a silent form of malnutrition caused not by lack of food,…
They say, “you are what you eat.” But in Ghana, what we eat and what we don’t tells a much bigger story about health, inequality, and public policy. Across the country, the double burden of malnutrition and lifestyle-related diseases is growing. In one home, a child suffers stunted growth due to poor nutrition; in another,…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time when the world turns pink to remind us that early detection saves lives. But beyond the screenings and campaigns, there’s another powerful prevention tool many overlooks: our diet. Emerging research shows that what we eat can influence our risk of developing breast cancer. Diets high in processed…
For many Ghanaian women, breast cancer remains a frightening and misunderstood disease. Despite decades of awareness efforts, stigma, fear, and misinformation continue to stop women from seeking help early, and those delays can be deadly. One of the most common myths is that breast cancer only affects older women. The truth? Women as young as…
Illegal small-scale mining, or galamsey, has been branded as one of Ghana’s gravest environmental and economic threats. Successive governments have promised action, task forces have been deployed, and billions of cedis lost in revenue have been reported. Yet a deeper crisis is unfolding beneath the surface; a nutrition emergency directly linked to the destruction caused…
On the banks of the River Pra, Ama, a mother of three, points to the murky water flowing past her village. “We used to drink from this river. We used to fish here,” she says. “Now, even our crops die when we use it to water them.” Ama’s children rarely eat fish anymore, and vegetables…
In every district across Ghana, children sit in classrooms with their books open but their minds closed off by hunger. Teachers try their best, parents make sacrifices, and government rolls out curriculum reforms. Yet the invisible barrier remains: an empty plate. Nutrition is the silent factor sabotaging Ghana’s education system, and until policymakers treat it…
When a child is born underweight in Ghana, the Ministry of Health takes the blame. When a schoolchild struggles to learn because of hunger, the education sector is blamed. When families cannot afford diverse foods, it is seen as a problem for agriculture. But in truth, these are not separate problems, they are pieces of…
Ghana has no shortage of policies on nutrition. From commitments to global platforms like the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit to local programmes targeting maternal and child health, the frameworks exist. And yet, the numbers tell us we are still lagging behind. According to the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS) 2022, one in five…