From golden rice to golden diets: How to turn its recent approval into practice
Following its approval in the Philippines in July 2021, provitamin A-rich “Golden Rice” is set to become the worlds' first commercialized genetically modified crop with direct consumer benefits. Despite supplementation and fortification programs, the burden of micronutrient deficiencies remains high...
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| description | Following its approval in the Philippines in July 2021, provitamin A-rich “Golden Rice” is set to become the worlds' first commercialized genetically modified crop with direct consumer benefits. Despite supplementation and fortification programs, the burden of micronutrient deficiencies remains high. For Golden Rice to be successful in reducing vitamin A deficiency, it needs to be taken up by food systems and integrated into consumer diets. Despite negative information often being associated with genetic engineering, evidence suggests that consumers react positively to Golden Rice. Thus, it offers policy makers and public health stakeholders a new, powerful option to address micronutrient malnutrition that they can integrate as a cost-effective component in broader nutrition strategies and tailor it to consumers’ heterogeneous socio-economic contexts and needs to promote “Golden Diets”. For this to happen, the right framing of the pathway from policy to consumption is crucial. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1260152025-11-12T05:00:12Z From golden rice to golden diets: How to turn its recent approval into practice Steur, Hans de Stein, Alexander J. Demont, Matty biofortification consumers consumer attitudes rice vitamin a deficiency Following its approval in the Philippines in July 2021, provitamin A-rich “Golden Rice” is set to become the worlds' first commercialized genetically modified crop with direct consumer benefits. Despite supplementation and fortification programs, the burden of micronutrient deficiencies remains high. For Golden Rice to be successful in reducing vitamin A deficiency, it needs to be taken up by food systems and integrated into consumer diets. Despite negative information often being associated with genetic engineering, evidence suggests that consumers react positively to Golden Rice. Thus, it offers policy makers and public health stakeholders a new, powerful option to address micronutrient malnutrition that they can integrate as a cost-effective component in broader nutrition strategies and tailor it to consumers’ heterogeneous socio-economic contexts and needs to promote “Golden Diets”. For this to happen, the right framing of the pathway from policy to consumption is crucial. 2022-03 2022-12-15T13:24:56Z 2022-12-15T13:24:56Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126015 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier De Steur, Hans, Stein, Alexander J. and Demont, Matty. 2022. From golden rice to golden diets: How to turn its recent approval into practice. Global Food Security 32:100596. |
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| title | From golden rice to golden diets: How to turn its recent approval into practice |
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