An overview of the landscape and approach for biofortification in Africa

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierJan Low: 0000-0001-8170-6045
cg.creator.identifierHowarth Bouis: 0000-0001-5432-9192
cg.creator.identifierAmy Saltzman: 0000-0001-7695-209X
cg.creator.identifierAnna-Marie Ball: 0000-0002-1179-0189
cg.creator.identifierNamukolo Covic: 0000-0001-6566-9803
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.18697/ajfand.78.harvestplus01en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - HarvestPlus
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankC
cg.issn1684-5374en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalAfrican Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Developmenten
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.cipNUTRITIONen
cg.subject.cipBIOFORTIFICATIONen
cg.volume17en
dc.contributor.authorBouis, Howarth E.en
dc.contributor.authorSaltzman, A.en
dc.contributor.authorBall, A.en
dc.contributor.authorCovic, Namukolo M.en
dc.contributor.authorLow, Jan W.en
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-02T00:32:29Zen
dc.date.available2018-04-02T00:32:29Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/91978
dc.titleAn overview of the landscape and approach for biofortification in Africaen
dcterms.abstractMineral and vitamin deficiencies are a serious public health problem in Africa. The terrible consequences of these deficiencies are well known. Biofortification is the process of breeding nutrients into staple food crops. It is one cost-effective and sustainable agricultural investment that can help to reduce mineral and vitamin deficiencies, especially in the diets of the rural poor. This chapter discusses the key questions and impact pathway around which biofortification research has been oriented over the past 15 years, and sets the stage for subsequent chapters in this special issue on biofortification for the African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.available2017-04-20
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBouis, H.; Saltzman, A.; Low, J.; Ball, A.; Covic, N. 2017. An overview of the landscape and approach for biofortification in Africa. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development. ISSN 1684-5374. 17(2):11848-11864.en
dcterms.extent11848-11864en
dcterms.issued2017-01-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherAfrican Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Developmenten
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/5799en
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectvitamin deficienciesen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectbiofortificationen
dcterms.subjectmicronutrient deficienciesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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