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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Autor principal: Bouis, Howarth E.
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Karger AG 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145647
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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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