Botswana: Rising Food Prices Leave Many Struggling

Gaborone — Nearly one in two citizens struggles to access enough safe and nutritious food to live active, healthy and productive lives, says University of Botswana, human nutrition Professor Maria Nnyepi.

Professor Nnyepi said that for the 2022/23 period, 49.4 per cent of the population experienced moderate or severe food insecurity, a figure that starkly illustrated how widespread and deeply rooted the problem had become.

“Food insecurity is not simply about the 20.2 per cent of Batswana who…