South Africans have unequal access to a healthy diet—solution requires tackling deep-seated injustice

South Africa has a food crisis. The food system—made up of all of the activities and actors involved in the production, processing, transportation, selling, consumption and disposal of food—produces starkly unequal access to nutritious foods.

As a result, many households in the country cannot afford a healthy diet, 27% of children under five are stunted, and the prevalence…