A5087077060- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Phytase and its Applications
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Global trade and economics
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- Genetically Modified Organisms Research
International Food Policy Research Institute
2011-2024
Princeton University
2023
International Monetary Fund
2014-2021
Banque de France
2021
Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
2003
Background The density of minerals and vitamins in food staples eaten widely by the poor may be increased either through conventional plant breeding or use transgenic techniques, a process known as biofortification. Objective HarvestPlus seeks to develop distribute varieties (rice, wheat, maize, cassava, pearl millet, beans, sweet potato) that are high iron, zinc, provitamin A an interdisciplinary, global alliance scientific institutions implementing agencies developing developed countries....
ABSTRACT Minerals and vitamins in food staples eaten widely by the poor may be increased either through conventional plant breeding or use of transgenic techniques, a process known as biofortification HarvestPlus seeks to develop distribute cultivars (rice [ Oryza sativa L.], wheat Triticum aestivum maize Zea mays cassava Manihot esculenta Crantz], pearl millet Pennisetum americanum Leeke], beans Phaseolus vulgaris sweet potato Ipomoea batatas L.]) that are high Fe, Zn, provitamin A an...
The recent rise in agricultural commodity prices has been dramatic, and food are likely to follow an upward trend, at least the medium-term. Moreover, financial crisis also lowered incomes increased prices. Not only does this reduce dietary quality, but expenditures for health, sanitation, education will decline, all of which have a detrimental effect on health nutrition outcomes.To provide some perspectives role major socioeconomic factors driving outcomes.We use demand elasticity...
Fundamentally, the prevalence of mineral and vitamin deficiencies is high in developing countries due to fact that agricultural systems do not produce sufficient foods rich minerals vitamins. Biofortification involves breeding staple food crops increase their micronutrient content, targeting widely consumed by low-income families globally. In so doing, biofortification contributes solving underlying problem increasing amount iron, zinc, provitamin A produced systems. When HarvestPlus first...
Because of poor dietary quality and consequent widespread micronutrient malnutrition in low income countries, children their mothers, who have higher requirements for vitamins minerals due to rapid growth reproduction respectively, mortality, become sick more often, cognitive abilities compromised a lifetime, are less productive members the workforce. Their life aggregate economic unnecessarily compromised. One way that biotechnology can help improve nutrition health consumers developing...