Household Food and Nutrition Security

Household food security is defined as availability and accessibility of adequate food in terms of quality and quantity that should be safe, nutritious to all household members at all times. It should be accessible and sustainable to all members at all times throughout the year.  Food security at household level is determined by what that particular household is able to buy or produce, store, process and prepare. In turn these are determined by purchasing power, agricultural productive resources available to that particular household such as amount and quality of land, the amount and division of labour, the availability of production assets, the level and type of technology as well as climate and ecology among others. [More]

Food and Nutrition Laboratory

The food and nutrition laboratory was established to cater for those TFNC programmes that involve a laboratory component as well as from other partners outside the TFNC who are concerned with nutrition-oriented work. Services rendered include laboratory analysis of food , body fluids and related substances. [More]

 

Food Fortification

Food Fortification as a nutritional intervention is undertaken by the department of Food Science and Nutrition (FSN) with the aim of preventing or correcting a demonstrated deficiencies of one or more nutrients.[More]