Healthier stokvels? Pooling your rands, but not your nutrition
The question is whether that influence can be redirected so that collective buying power delivers not only more food, but better food.
The findings say stokvels could help low-income households eat better, but their existing buying systems may also reinforce diets dominated by sugar, cooking oil, processed meat and other shelf-stable goods.
The challenge is to find ways of using these existing structures to increase preference for healthier food while making them affordable and practical.
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