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Biofortified crops are sustainably integrated in Nigeria’s food systems and benefiting approximately 13 million consumers

A review of the literature, monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment data to date, and consultations with experts from the public and private sectors revealed that biofortified staples are fully embedded in the Nigerian food system. Biofortification is already benefiting approximately 13 millio...

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: 2021
Subjects:
crops
policies
evaluation
monitoring
investment
seeds
impact assessment
assessment
food systems
data
grain
biofortification
systems
consumers
food
integration
products
literature
public policies
system
case studies
agrifood systems
rural development
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121231
Summary:A review of the literature, monitoring, evaluation, and impact assessment data to date, and consultations with experts from the public and private sectors revealed that biofortified staples are fully embedded in the Nigerian food system. Biofortification is already benefiting approximately 13 million consumers, with potential to cover the entire country given the most recent developments in integration of biofortified seeds and grain in public policies and programs and increasing private seed and food sector interest and investment in biofortified products.

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