"Orange maize🌽is number 1 when it comes to health issues" Mrs. Chitombo singing.Vitamin A orange maize🌽is a natural source of vitamin A, contributing to alleviating vitamin A deficiency #endhiddenhunger #biofortification #learning #event in🇿🇼 UKinZimbabwe 🇬🇧 🇿🇼 Delilah Takawira LFSPZim

#UKaid is funding research to protect our food supplies from the threat of #ClimateChange. One great example is these climate-resilient super crops that withstand erratic weather & rising temperatures 👇 #100WaysAidWorks for the UK and the world #GlobalBritain

#biofortification is a targeted, cost effective & sustainable solution that presents a basket of nutritious food options to the populace. Encouraging industries to use biofortified crops as raw materials will help to scale & reach more people through their every day meals.

September's Nutrition Bulletin is hot off the press 🔥 #NationalFoodStrategy #Biofortification #CBD #Cannabidiol #WeightStigma #Microbiome #Reformulation #SchoolFood And much more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nb…

New research from the Dept of #Agronomy! Simultaneous #Biofortification of #Wheat with Zinc, Iodine, Selenium, and Iron through #Foliar Treatment of a #Micronutrient Cocktail in Six Countries See it here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.ja… #SciComm #AcademicChatter Agronomy #StellenboschUniversity

Good morning from a colorful biofortified crops and products table all the way from Nigeria,Zambia and Rwanda to #FANUS Conference in #Kigali! #EndHiddenHunger

Delighted to see #biofortification recognized throughout #TICAD7 by government officials JICA - Japan International Cooperation Agency. Thank you Gerda Verburg Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement #YLFN for moderating a phenomenal panel. It takes many diverse interventions to end malnutrition.

#ICYMI this is a great snapshot of what #biofortification can do to decrease #micronutrient deficiencies. Thanks #UKaid. Come learn more about biofortification at our global conference and the co-located 2nd Global Fortification Summit with HarvestPlus and GAIN

New Nutrition Bulletin🔦 Spotlight🔦 on #Biofortification onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.111… *All papers FREE to access for 3 months* Includes 5 papers describing current biofortification strategies and their potential to improve public health both in developing & developed countries

Peer reviewed studies affirm that biofortified crops can contribute to reducing #HiddenHunger: on.cgiar.org/2LhXN1G #AGRF2019 #CIP2018AR International Potato Center Gates Foundation Africa HarvestPlus CGIAR CIMMYT CIAT IITA BNFB Project AFS Forum

In the field procuring Orange Maize from farmers in the LFSPZim HarvestPlus Zimbabwe making real impact improving livelihoods of our farmers FAO Subregional Office for Southern Africa Obert Maminimini EmpowerBank Delilah Takawira Palladium Thokozile Ndhlela Charles Mutimaamba DFID UKinZimbabwe 🇬🇧 🇿🇼 HarvestPlus

Strong partnerships between International Potato Center, IRRI 🌾, IITA, CIAT , national partners and HarvestPlus are scaling up availability of #biofortified foods to tens of millions of people worldwide says HarvestPlus’s Arun Baral #CGIARatAGRF #AGRF2019

Can 'super-nutritious' crops help solve global malnutrition? This article considers HarvestPlus, a global agricultural research programme that promotes the #biofortification of food crops to address #Hunger and #Malnutrition - via Devex devex.com/news/how-to-sc…

#Biofortification and #diversity go hand in hand. Breeders use the natural diversity in the crop to select those with a natural ability to accumulate more #micronutrients in their edible parts, without compromising on yield, drought tolerance, taste, pest&disease tolerance, etc

The British Ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson today visited LFSPZim project being implemented by HarvestPlus Zimbabwe in Mazowe District. She met farmers growing and consuming biofortified crops 🌽🌽being promoted under the UKinZimbabwe 🇬🇧 🇿🇼 funded programme @lfspzim #EndHiddenHunger

"Under nutrition, over nutrition & micronutrient deficiencies continue to be of public health concern." Supporting the private sector to scale out #biofortification will reduce these issues especially in rural communities in Africa. GAIN HarvestPlus Arun Baral

Improved nutrition requires not only access to adequate foods but also high quality and diversified foods. HarvestPlus Follow the hashtag for more. #SPS2020 #NutritionforAfrica

What would you say if someone gave you a sweet potato this size??? Some farmers using clean virus free vines get this kind of orange sweet potato and some people like it some do not.... how about you?

Changing Times, Changing Consumer Needs: Nutri-Cereals Will Gain Momentum, and Fortified & Biofortified Goods will be the New Norm. #biofortification #zincwheat #pearlmillet #foodindustry #cereals #consumers #demand #foods #packagedfoods #beverage Link: linkedin.com/pulse/post-cov…

#thankyou Dr Prem Kumar, Hon'ble Minister, Agriculture Dept, Bihar, congratulates HarvestPlus and the team, for helping implement #Biofortification programmes in the state and distributing 200 metric tonnes of free seed of biofortified zinc wheat to over 20,000 farmers in Bihar