An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis
A national flour blending policy is about to be implemented in Kenya. This requires maize flour (the country’s main staple) to be blended with at least 10 percent of either one or a composite of traditional crops, such as sorghum and millet.1 The blending ratio is expected to increase gradually, wit...
| Autores principales: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Capítulo de libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
International Food Policy Research Institute
2023
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138931 |
| _version_ | 1855529293396836352 |
|---|---|
| author | Melesse, Mequanint B. Tessema, Yohannis Mulu Manyasa, Eric Hall, Andrew |
| author_browse | Hall, Andrew Manyasa, Eric Melesse, Mequanint B. Tessema, Yohannis Mulu |
| author_facet | Melesse, Mequanint B. Tessema, Yohannis Mulu Manyasa, Eric Hall, Andrew |
| author_sort | Melesse, Mequanint B. |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | A national flour blending policy is about to be implemented in Kenya. This requires maize flour (the country’s main staple) to be blended with at least 10 percent of either one or a composite of traditional crops, such as sorghum and millet.1 The blending ratio is expected to increase gradually, with the goal of ultimately reaching 30 percent. The policy envisages achieving several goals. The first is to improve the nutritional quality of maize flour: sorghum and millet (and other candidate blending crops) have micronutrient characteristics that are absent in maize. The second is to promote more climate-tolerant crops and technologies: sorghum and millet can be grown in less favorable arid and semiarid lands (ASALs), in the very conditions that many farmers face in Kenya. This is particularly important given that maize is more susceptible than other staple crops to climate change. The third is to reduce the country’s overreliance on imported maize and concerns about its food sovereignty.
This file includes the introduction to Part Six. |
| format | Book Chapter |
| id | CGSpace138931 |
| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2023 |
| publishDateRange | 2023 |
| publishDateSort | 2023 |
| publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| publisherStr | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | CGSpace1389312025-12-08T09:54:28Z An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis Melesse, Mequanint B. Tessema, Yohannis Mulu Manyasa, Eric Hall, Andrew flours grain trace elements climate food sovereignty climate change A national flour blending policy is about to be implemented in Kenya. This requires maize flour (the country’s main staple) to be blended with at least 10 percent of either one or a composite of traditional crops, such as sorghum and millet.1 The blending ratio is expected to increase gradually, with the goal of ultimately reaching 30 percent. The policy envisages achieving several goals. The first is to improve the nutritional quality of maize flour: sorghum and millet (and other candidate blending crops) have micronutrient characteristics that are absent in maize. The second is to promote more climate-tolerant crops and technologies: sorghum and millet can be grown in less favorable arid and semiarid lands (ASALs), in the very conditions that many farmers face in Kenya. This is particularly important given that maize is more susceptible than other staple crops to climate change. The third is to reduce the country’s overreliance on imported maize and concerns about its food sovereignty. This file includes the introduction to Part Six. 2023-12-20 2024-02-05T19:41:56Z 2024-02-05T19:41:56Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138931 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294561 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Melesse, Mequanint B.; Tessema, Yohannis Mulu; Manyasa, Eric; and Hall, Andrew. 2023. An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis. In Food Systems Transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the Past and Policy Options for the Future, eds. Clemens Breisinger, Michael Keenan, Juneweenex Mbuthia, and Jemimah Njuki. Part 6: Toward more sustainable food systems, Chapter 16, Pp. 409-432. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294561_16. |
| spellingShingle | flours grain trace elements climate food sovereignty climate change Melesse, Mequanint B. Tessema, Yohannis Mulu Manyasa, Eric Hall, Andrew An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis |
| title | An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis |
| title_full | An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis |
| title_fullStr | An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis |
| title_short | An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: A food systems analysis |
| title_sort | enabling environment for the national flour blending policy a food systems analysis |
| topic | flours grain trace elements climate food sovereignty climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138931 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT melessemequanintb anenablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis AT tessemayohannismulu anenablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis AT manyasaeric anenablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis AT hallandrew anenablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis AT melessemequanintb enablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis AT tessemayohannismulu enablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis AT manyasaeric enablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis AT hallandrew enablingenvironmentforthenationalflourblendingpolicyafoodsystemsanalysis |