Title: Better food for an undernourished world
1Better food for an undernourished world
- The Promise and Challenges of Biofortification
- HOWARTH E. BOUIS
- Director
- HarvestPlus
2 3 Changes in Cereal Pulse Production in
Population 1965 1999
Cereals
Pulses
Population
4SHARE OF ENERGY INTAKE FOR RURAL BANGLADESH
5HarvestPlus Program Strategy
- Develop micronutrient dense staple crops using
the best traditional breeding practices and
modern biotechnology to achieve provitamin A,
iron, and zinc concentrations that can have
measurable effects on nutritional status
6Biofortification Comparative Advantages and Niche
- Uses agriculture as an instrument to improve
public health a new tool - Research at a central location can be leveraged
across countries and across time therefore,
highly cost-effective and sustainable. - Complements other public health interventions by
starting in rural areas and then reaching into
urban areas
7 8Commitments to public RD of biofortified crops,
2004-2009
- HarvestPlus Global (48 million)
- Latin Am. Biofortification (12 million)
- India Biofortification ( 3 million)
- Gates Grand Challenge 9
- Sorghum (16.9 million)
- Rice (11.3 million)
- Cassava ( 7.5 million)
- Banana ( 1.1 million)
9Golden Rice can satisfy vitamin A requirements
SGR2
SGR1
1.2 1.8 up to 8.0 up to
36.7 Provitamin A Carotenoid levels (ug/g)
SGR1 and SGR2 were produced by Syngenta and have
been donated to the GR Humanitarian Board.
10Contribution to Vitamin A Intake
200
SGR2
150
Percent of Recommended Vitamin A Intake (WHO/FAO)
Non-staple
100
plant
Animal and
Fish
50
0
Adult Women
Children
11High Iron Rice improves iron levels
p .13
p .032
0.0
-0.9
0.6
p .036
-0.5
1.2
0.1
2.6 6.0 8.7
Source Haas, Beard, Murray-Kolb, del Mundo,
Felix and Gregorio, 2005. Journal of Nutrition
(Forthcoming)
12Beta Carotene Rich Sweetpotato increases
vitamin A status Supervised feeding 125 g x 5
d/wk for 10.5 wk 1030 ?g RAE OFSP vs 0 ?g RAE
WFSP 90 compliance 250 RDA
van Jaarsveld et al, (May 2005) American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition
13 14Hitting nutritional targets with conventional
plant breeding
15Reaching the end usersthe final challenge
16Pakistan Wheat Area
17Pakistan Variety Area Share, 1997
Source CIMMYT Database
18Pakistan, Peshawar
Advanced Line
Inquilab 91
19Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato
20Reaching End Users
21Farmer adoption and seed systems
22Demand Creation
.
Towards Sustainable Nutrition Improvement in
Rural Mozambique (TSNI), Project Activities
April - September 2004
23Market Development
24Demand Creation
25Interdisciplinary Communication and Cooperation
is Essential
- Plant Breeders
- Molecular Biologists
- Food Technologists
- Human Nutritionists
- Farm Extensionists
- Experts in Food Product Development/Marketing
- Nutrition Communications Experts
- Economists
26 27 In Conclusion
- Such intimately related subjects as
agriculture, food, nutrition and health have
become split up into innumerable rigid and
self-contained little units, each in the hands of
some group of specialists. The experts, as their
studies become concentrated on smaller and
smaller fragments, soon find themselves
learning more and more about less and less.
Everywhere knowledge increases at the expense of
understanding "
28In Conclusion
- The remedy is to look at the whole field
covered by crop production,animal husbandry,
food, nutrition, and health as one related
subject and then to realize the great principle
that the birthright of every crop, every animal,
and every human being is health. -
29In Conclusion
-
- The Soil and Health, 1945
- Sir Albert Howard,
- 1873-1947