Policymakers should incorporate nutrition and farming, if the world is going to rise to the challenges of hunger, malnutrition, and a growing population.
That’s the message from the Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health conference in New Delhi, India, organized by CIAT’s CGIAR sister-center the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Experts at the conference have called for more emphasis on biofortification – the process of improving the nutritional content of crops – rather than just focusing on yields. Click to read Voice of America’s write-up.
The CIAT-based biofortification program AgroSalud is developing, promoting, and disseminating biofortified crops in 14 countries in Latin America. Click to watch Feeding Ambitions, a short photofilm about the work of AgroSalud to improve the diets of schoolchildren in Colombia’s southwestern Cauca department, where malnutrition is endemic.
Related links:
- New AgroSalud photofilm now online
- Tackling nutrition with food not pills
- In pictures – AgroSalud featured in New Agriculturist
