South Africa needs an emergency food plan — now

South Africa faces an acute food security crisis marked by severe malnutrition and child deaths due to failures in affordability, distribution, and political coordination despite sufficient food production. The absence of an effective national food and nutrition security plan and institutional paralysis worsens the threat amid looming global food supply shocks from El Niño and geopolitical tensions.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Foodtech.