Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus
HarvestPlus estimates that 20 million farmers and consumers presently grow and consume biofortified crops in 8 target countries. The final and major challenge is to mainstream biofortification into the fabric of “business-as-usual” of a range of organizations - public and private agricultural resear...
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Karger AG
2018
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| author | Bouis, Howarth E. |
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| description | HarvestPlus estimates that 20 million farmers and consumers presently grow and consume biofortified crops in 8 target countries. The final and major challenge is to mainstream biofortification into the fabric of “business-as-usual” of a range of organizations - public and private agricultural research, institutions that focus on bringing improved agricultural technologies to farmers including multi-lateral lending institutions, private companies, non-governmental organizations, and the policies and programs of national governments, regional organizations, and UN agencies. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1456472025-12-08T10:29:22Z Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus Bouis, Howarth E. biofortification nutrient deficiencies farmers agricultural research agricultural policies maize retinol institutions nutrition vitamin deficiencies trace elements private sector developing countries consumers governmental organizations HarvestPlus estimates that 20 million farmers and consumers presently grow and consume biofortified crops in 8 target countries. The final and major challenge is to mainstream biofortification into the fabric of “business-as-usual” of a range of organizations - public and private agricultural research, institutions that focus on bringing improved agricultural technologies to farmers including multi-lateral lending institutions, private companies, non-governmental organizations, and the policies and programs of national governments, regional organizations, and UN agencies. 2018-04-25 2024-06-21T09:04:47Z 2024-06-21T09:04:47Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145647 en https://doi.org/10.1159/000484463 https://doi.org/10.1159/000484336 Limited Access Karger AG Bouis, Howarth. 2018. Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus. In Hidden Hunger: Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality, eds. H. K. Biesalski and R. Birner. Vol. 118, Pp. 112-122. https://doi.org/10.1159/000484342 |
| spellingShingle | biofortification nutrient deficiencies farmers agricultural research agricultural policies maize retinol institutions nutrition vitamin deficiencies trace elements private sector developing countries consumers governmental organizations Bouis, Howarth E. Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus |
| title | Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus |
| title_full | Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus |
| title_fullStr | Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus |
| title_short | Reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification: Progress under HarvestPlus |
| title_sort | reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies through biofortification progress under harvestplus |
| topic | biofortification nutrient deficiencies farmers agricultural research agricultural policies maize retinol institutions nutrition vitamin deficiencies trace elements private sector developing countries consumers governmental organizations |
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