Biofortification is a set of approaches to boost nutrients in food that have been lost due to industrial agriculture practices. Biofortification risks making our current industrial agriculture system ...

A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bullet In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas ...

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New varieties of staple crops are being developed to tackle hunger, under-nutrition and malnutrition and boost farmers’ income.They are available to farmers in 40 countries, according to the ...

The zinc biofortification component is an important new innovation. Biofortification is the process of growing crops to increase nutritional value from the seed on, Di Gioia explained. It is different ...

In September, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization reported that food prices are 26 percent higher than a year ago and that the prices for staple grains, the main foods for the world’s poor, are ...

ALMOST two billion people in the world face hidden hunger or micronutrient deficiencies because essential vitamins and minerals are missing from their diet. Deficiencies of micronutrients like iron, ...

Two billion people lack essential vitamins and minerals. One solution for tackling this “hidden hunger” unites agriculture and nutrition to improve the health and livelihoods of smallholder farming ...