Increasing resilience to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and other health threats in food-insecure communities

The health of the majority South Africa’s population is seriously threatened by hunger and micronutrient deficiency, with impaired immune response a real threat, which current SARSCoV-2 virus pandemic has highlighted. Traditional household food-processing techniques can, amongst other advantages, increase nutrient bioavailability in affordable staple foods hence provide way, part, to alleviate malnutrition for food-insecure communities. In this defence pathogen resilience food insecure could be enhanced so that they can better survive both COVID-19 future threats.