Biofortification's ability to improve nutrition and health of vulnerable populations internationally recognized 15 million people reached with biofortified varieties of staple crops, rich in vitamin A ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Biofortification is a bit of a mouthful, but as a concept it's saved and improved millions of lives.

HarvestPlus, along with its global partners, develops new, more nutritious varieties of sweet potatoes, beans, maize, cassava, pearl millet, wheat and rice. These improved varieties provide higher ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. HarvestPlus director Howarth Bouis is one of four winners of the 2016 World Food Prize, ...

HarvestPlus’s Global Director, Product Development and Commercialization, Wolfgang Pfeiffer has promised that the body will continue to work with partners to ensure that many more vulnerable people to ...

Bangladesh have self-sufficiency in food security, but nutrition deficiency is still high. About 28 per cent of children aged under 5 in the country do not get enough zinc in their diets. The farm ...

HarvestPlus partners with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Agricultural Development Program (ADP) through the ADP’s Women in Agriculture (WIA) Extension Program to boost nutrition, ...

A long campaign to make staple crops more nutritious has been awarded with the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for food research. The World Food Prize is recognition for more than 20 years of work for ...