Biofortification of staple food crops: Six questions
More than half the world’s population suffers from micronutrient malnutrition. Biofortification of staple food crops is a new public health approach to control vitamin A, iron, and zinc deficiencies in poor countries. Biofortification is the development of micronutrient ‐ dense staple crops using tr...
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| author | Nestel, Penelope Bouis, Howarth E. Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Meenakshi, Jonnalagadda V. |
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| description | More than half the world’s population suffers from micronutrient malnutrition. Biofortification of staple food crops is a new public health approach to control vitamin A, iron, and zinc deficiencies in poor countries. Biofortification is the development of micronutrient ‐ dense staple crops using traditional breeding practices and modern biotechnology. It has multiple advantages: it capitalizes on the regular daily intake of a consistent and large amount of the food staples that predominate in the diets of the poor, recurrent costs are low (germplasm can be shared internationally), it is sustainable, and it can reach undernourished populations in remote are as. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1605352025-11-06T03:47:28Z Biofortification of staple food crops: Six questions Nestel, Penelope Bouis, Howarth E. Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Meenakshi, Jonnalagadda V. iron zinc retinol carotenoids vitamin a nutrition plant breeding biofortification More than half the world’s population suffers from micronutrient malnutrition. Biofortification of staple food crops is a new public health approach to control vitamin A, iron, and zinc deficiencies in poor countries. Biofortification is the development of micronutrient ‐ dense staple crops using traditional breeding practices and modern biotechnology. It has multiple advantages: it capitalizes on the regular daily intake of a consistent and large amount of the food staples that predominate in the diets of the poor, recurrent costs are low (germplasm can be shared internationally), it is sustainable, and it can reach undernourished populations in remote are as. 2006 2024-11-21T09:51:03Z 2024-11-21T09:51:03Z Abstract https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160535 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Nestel, Penelope; Bouis, Howarth E.; Meenakshi, J. V. and Pfeiffer, Wolfgang. 2006. Biofortification of staple food crops: Six questions. HarvestPlus Abstract 5. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160535 |
| spellingShingle | iron zinc retinol carotenoids vitamin a nutrition plant breeding biofortification Nestel, Penelope Bouis, Howarth E. Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Meenakshi, Jonnalagadda V. Biofortification of staple food crops: Six questions |
| title | Biofortification of staple food crops: Six questions |
| title_full | Biofortification of staple food crops: Six questions |
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| title_short | Biofortification of staple food crops: Six questions |
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| topic | iron zinc retinol carotenoids vitamin a nutrition plant breeding biofortification |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160535 |
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