Brittany Kesselman

Brittany Kesselman is postdoctoral research fellow at the Society, Work, and Politics Institute in the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

What Covid-19 revealed about hunger

In South Africa, many people struggle to access sufficient quantities of healthy food. Because their diets are high in processed foods, refined starch, sugar, and fat, they face a double burden of malnutrition and obesity, or what is known as “hidden hunger.”

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September 20, 2021
September 20, 2021

What Covid-19 revealed about hunger

In South Africa, many people struggle to access sufficient quantities of healthy food. Because their diets are high in processed foods, refined starch, sugar, and fat, they face a double burden of malnutrition and obesity, or what is known as “hidden hunger.”