Highlights: Despite significant advancements in reducing global child mortality and malnutrition, a substantial number of children still die due to preventable causes, including undernutrition. Maternal...
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Results indicate that providing fortified rice in school meals is very highly cost effective in reducing zinc, folic acid, and vitamin A deficiencies, improving cognitive performance...
Biofortification was first proposed in the early 1990s as a low-cost, sustainable strategy to enhance the mineral and vitamin contents of staple food crops to address micronutrient malnutrition. Since then...
Highlights: There is wide diversity of views on which actions are essential for healthy diets. Views were particularly polarised on fortification and reformulation. There is strong agreement...
Highlights: This study assessed the contribution of the agroforestry system (AFS) as an agroecological approach to ensuring farmers' food security in South Asia (SA). The review found a trade-off between...
Post-harvest handling can affect micronutrient retention in biofortified crops through to the point of consumption. Here we conduct a systematic review identifying 67 articles examining...
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This study evaluates synergies and trade-offs between agricultural export promotion and domestic food security.
Agro-export promotion markedly alters the composition of output...
Highlights: Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES) can overestimate household intakes. The use of Adult Male Equivalents (AME) underestimates of women’s shares o ffoods...
In 2021, WFP distributed 1,478,081 MT of fortified foods – the equivalent of more than 3 billion rations, or enough for 17 million people to have their daily...
Biofortified beans are being promoted in Burundi to solve malnutrition issues among rural households. The study was conducted in Muyinga and Gasorwe communes, where biofortified...