What is biofortification? Its breeding food crops that have more nutrients in them for malnourished people in poorer countries. Find out how we're doing it.
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HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition More than 50% of children in Afghanistan and Yemen have stunted growth rates
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Iron Man for Rwanda Spreads the Word on Nutritious Beans
Jean d’Amour Manirere is Harvest Plus’ first Country Manager, handpicked to manage the release of high-iron beans in Rwanda.
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Jean d’Amour Manirere is Harvest Plus’ first Country Manager, handpicked to manage the release of high-iron beans in Rwanda.
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HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition Bringing Vitamin A to Ugandans through Sweet Potato on 'The Current' (Canadian Radio program) today! Listen online.
HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition $21m sweet potato project for vitamin A and better nutrition in Africa
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Iron Man for Rwanda Spreads the Word on Nutritious Beans
Jean d’Amour Maniere is Harvest Plus’ first Country Manager, handpicked to manage the release of high-iron beans in Rwanda.
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Jean d’Amour Maniere is Harvest Plus’ first Country Manager, handpicked to manage the release of high-iron beans in Rwanda.
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HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition Why we need biofortification: "We've been eating beans, (corn) tortillas and salt because we didn't have enough money to buy anything else".
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Juan Manuel Ardón's bones jut out and his hair is dull and thin: signs of severe malnutrition. He is so weak that he can hardly walk or talk, and the doctors say his weight and stature are those of a six-year-old, rather than 15-year-old, boy.
HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition HarvestPlus participated in the 2009 ICN--we had a booth, symposium, and several abstracts/posters were also presented by our partners. Here are a few photos from the event.
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HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition India loses $29 billion of GDP to malnutrition. Reducing hidden hunger will have huge economic payoff.
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Malnutrition is eating up as much as four per cent of the country's gross domestic product, experts said.India loses nearly 4% of its GDP to malnutrition
HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition Open Access Week-- scientific research must be made more accessible especially in poorer countries.
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Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. ...
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Study Shows that Women Absorb More Zinc from Biofortified Wheat
Zinc is involved in more body functions than any other mineral.
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Zinc is involved in more body functions than any other mineral.
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HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition Zinc may be 'silver bullet' in saving lives of children who fall victim to diarrheal disease http://bit.ly/JtGv3
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Can One Pill Tame the Illness No One Wants to Talk About?
HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition Orange sweet potato takes root in South Africa to reduce vitamin A deficency
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THE orange-fleshed sweet potato, which is rich in Vitamin A, is being hailed as a solution to malnutrition in four of East London’s communities.
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Partnership with Brazil Researchers Pays Off
Occupying almost half the area of South America and ranking fifth in world population, Brazil can play a significant role in promoting biofortification in the region.
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Occupying almost half the area of South America and ranking fifth in world population, Brazil can play a significant role in promoting biofortification in the region.
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HarvestPlus – Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition These pictures were taken by Patrick Eozenou, a post doctoral fellow with HarvestPlus, who spent six months in Mozambique during 2009. Patrick was conducting a survey following completion of an orange sweet potato project.
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