Biofortification: An Agricultural Investment for Nutrition

Chloe Angood

Resource: Biofortification: An Agricultural Investment for Nutrition

This policy brief lays out the technical evidence and arguments for supporting biofortification as one element of a nutrient-sensitive national agricultural research and...

FEX: Optimal investments in biofortification

Research snapshot1 As momentum for biofortification builds and stakeholders become increasingly interested in investing in it, evidence-based information is needed to decide...

FEX: An overview of biofortification in Africa

Research snapshot1 Biofortification is the process of breeding nutrients into staple food crops to help reduce mineral and vitamin deficiencies. It is recognised by the...

FEX: Biofortification: Helping meet nutrition needs worldwide

News By Dr Erick Boy, Nutrition Head, HarvestPlus Dr Erick Boy is a public health practitioner and has a doctoral degree in nutrition from University of California, Davis. He...

FEX: AJFAND special issue on biofortification

Summary of research1 Over the last decade HarvestPlus CGIAR2 national partners have developed over 150 varieties of 11 micronutrient-rich staples, including rice, wheat,...

NEX: SUN and the private sector: Business networks in Nigeria and Niger

Ambarka Youssoufane is ENN's West and Central Africa Knowledge Management Specialist. He observed and summarised the Business Network meetings in Nigeria and...

FEX: Bioavailability of iron, zinc and provitamin A carotenoids in biofortified staple crops

Summary of study1 Location: Global What we know: Biofortification of staple foods is one potential way of increasing micronutrient intake in resource limited populations....

FEX: Protecting policy space for public health nutrition

Summary of research1 Location: Global What we know: There is growing consensus that strong government regulation of food, beverage and tobacco sectors is needed to protect...

FEX: Links between household agricultural production and nutrition

Summary of research1 Location: Nigeria, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Nepal What we know: It is generally accepted that agricultural development will...

Secure Nutrition Webinar on biofortification and nutrition

Secure Nutrition is hosting a webinar with HarvestPlus, Agrilinks, and World Bank Agriculture on Tuesday October 6th, 12:30 - 2:00pm EST "Improving Nutrition through...

FEX: Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: What have we learned and where do we go from here?

Summary of research1 Location: Global What we know: Agriculture has strong potential to improve nutrition outcomes through improving food availability and access and through...

FEX: New IFPRI report

The respected International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently published the results of its predictions of the future of food access and consumption in a report...

en-net: Director - Secretariat of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition

We have an exciting new job opening at the Secretariat of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition: Director Closing Date: Thursday 11 December...

FEX: Importance of government policies and other influences in transforming global diets

Summary of published article1 Location: Global What we know: There have been significant global dietary and nutritional changes over the past 20 years or so due to a...

FEX: Moderating the impact of climate change

Summary of published research1 Adaptations to guard against the impact on food security of climate change are reviewed in a recently published article. The authors start with...

NEX: Sustainable Development Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

Agreed by all UN member states, Transforming Our World: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, consists of a Declaration, 17 Global Goals and 169 targets, a section on means...

FEX: Call for strategic US approach to the global food crisis

Summary of report1 US Government vessel offloading in the port of Djibouti 42,000 MT of donated food aid in Ethiopia in 2002. The food will reach Ethiopia after a three day...

FEX: The RAIN programme

By Miriam Christensen and Todd Flower Miriam Christensen was the Documentation and Information Officer with the RAIN programme. She specialises in communications and knowledge...

FEX: Operational factors in the integration of nutrition into agriculture and livelihoods programmes in Zimbabwe

By Anne-Marie Mayer, Rose Ndolo and Jane Keylock View this article as a pdf Lisez cet article en français ici Anne-Marie Mayer works as a consultant for programmes at...

FEX: Linking agriculture with nutrition within SDG2: making a case for a dietary diversity indicator

By Anna Lartey Anna Lartey is Director of FAO's Nutrition Division within the Economic and Social Development Department at FAO in Rome. She was a Professor of Nutrition at...