HarvestPlus Nigeria displaying vitamin A cassava flour products in Ibadan, Oyo State, recently. PHOTO: Femi Ibirogba
One out of three children in Nigeria is malnourished and around 45% of infant mortality is linked to malnutrition worldwide. FEMI IBIROGBA writes about the dual approaches of crop and food fortification to tackle the challenge.
Crop bio-fortification and incorporation of micronutrients into processed foods have been identified as an effective strategy to reduce malnutrition, its attendant high infant mortalities and disease burdens on Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 52 million children under five years of age are wasted, 17 million are severely wasted and 155 million are stunted, while 41 million are overweight or obese…
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