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IMPROVING NUTRITION IN FOOD SYSTEMS
IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
World Bank June 12th, 2013
Biofortification: Breeding Crops for Better
Nutrition
Public, private partnership:
A case study for product development
Fabiana de Moura HarvestPlus Nutritionist Researcher
Marilia Regini Nutti HarvestPlus Coordinator Latin America and Caribbean
Coordinator of Brazilian Biofortification Network-BioFORT.
Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation - EMBRAPA Brazil.
CGIAR Research Centers
CIAT Tropical agriculture Cali, Colombia
CIMMYT Maize and wheat Mexico City, Mexico
IFPRI Food policy Washington, D.C., USA
CIP Roots and tubers Lima, Peru
IITA Tropical agriculture Ibadan, Nigeria
IPGRI Agricultural biodiversity Rome, Italy
ICARDA Agriculture in the dry areas Aleppo, Syria
IWMI Water resources Colombo, Sri Lanka
ICRAF Agroforestry
and ILRI Livestock Nairobi,Kenya
CIFOR Forestry Bogor, Indonesia
IRRI Rice Los Baños, Philippines
ICRISAT Semi-arid tropical agriculture Patancheru, India
ICLARM Fisheries Penang, Malaysia
WARDA Rice in West Africa Benin
AgroSalud Project
• Development, evaluation, diffusion , transfer and promotion of
biofortified crops. • Complementary strategy to other efforts in other to increase
the nutritional intake and nutrition food security. • Geographical focus in Latin America and the Caribbean • Financed by CIDA (Canada), 2005-09 • Integrated to HarvestPlus
CIAT (Colombia)
EMBRAPA (Brasil)
BioFORT
Was born the
With the activities starting in 2009 , this project complements the activiites alrealy being developed in HarvestPlus e AgroSalud, helping to strengh the Brazilian Biofortification Network , being sponsored by Fundo de Pesquisa Embrapa / Monsanto ( Embrapa and Monsanto Research Fund) .
To develop biofortified crops and evaluate its acceptability by target group.
To breed for high pro - vitamin A varieties of pumpkin, sweet potato, cassava and maize.
To breed for high Fe and Zn contents cultivars/ varieties of rice, beans, cowpea beans , maize and wheat.
To develop food products and packing that are in accordance with the target group eating and dietary habits.
To evaluate the potential of the utilization of the biofortified food in the school lunch program of the Maranhão, Sergipe and Minas Gerais States ;
To develop communication , diffusion and technology transfer actions in order to guarantee visibility for the project among the stake holders
BioFORT Project Objectives
Approaches to fighting micronutrient
malnutrition
BIOFORTICATION
The food basket approach for LAC
• In LAC several people are reached via supplementation and fortification;
• We want to reach rural poor with biofortified versions of these crops, since rural poor may not have access to supplements and fortified food;
• Processed products made of these crops that could claim that they are source of Fe, Zn or provitamin A, according to the labeling guidelines of the target countries.
• Pilot studies (2008 -2011) in 4 states: Maranhao, Sergipe, Minas Geraes and Rio de Janeiro
• Task I - Nutrition ( 2 activities)
• 1: baseline on health and nutrition status of target population, identification of food habits and consumption.
• 2: acceptability test of the 6 crops in the school lunch program.
• Task II - Production
• Validation of the cultivars and production of the food ( grains and tubers ) at the municipalities.
• Release of 10 cultivars with high Fe, Zn and Beta Carotene that are being disseminated.
Biofortification Projects in Brazil: BioFORT, HarvestPlus and AgroSalud, coordinated in Brazil by Embrapa, since 2003. It aims to develop micronutrient dense staple crops, to achieve provitamin A, iron, and zinc concentrations that can have measurable effects on nutritional status.
Cultivars released and recommended in Brazil
• Beans – 3 cultivars
• Cowpea – 3 cultivars
• Cassava – 3 cultivars
• Sweet-potato – 1 cultivar
• Maize – 1 cultivar
Product Development
Sweet Potato
OFSP bread OFSP flour
OFSP pasta OFSP gnocchi
OFSP cookies OFSP chips
Cassava/wheat Snack
Cassava Bread
Cassava Pallet Cassava Flour
Partnership between Embrapa Food Technology
and Clayuca at AgroSalud project
Cassava Chips Cassava Fried
Development of cassava (Manihot esculenta, Crantz) flour products: an
application for biofortified cropsCassava Partnership First Scientific Meeting
GCP – I. Cassava: Meeting the Challenges of the New Millennium. 21 -25, July.
2008. Ghent, Belgium.
Product Development
Cassava
Brown Rice + Maize (30%)
Brown Rice (100%)
Brown Rice + Milled Rice + Maize
(55:30:15)
Noodles
MATERIAL ID GENEALOGIA ORIGEN
WHITE MAIZE SA1614-18 S03TLWQAB05 PM06B-062-5
A collaboration agreement between
Company Pampa Ltda e a CLAYUCA
was initiated in 2008.
Product developed (Jan-09)
Company Pampa Ltda – Cali, Colombia
QPM Maize
Cleaning (Zaranda – 1800 rpm)
De-germination (200 kg/tanda – 17 min)
Salvado = 467 kg (37%)
Classification (300 kg/h)
Packing
1276 kg
Maíz venteado = 1266 kg
Impurezas = 3 kg (0,2%)
Maíz trillado = 789 kg
Maíz para cuchuco = 82 kg (6%)
De-germinated maize for mazamorra 723 kg (57%)
3286 bolsas x 220 g
QPM maize kernel Dried in silos
Mechanical shelling “pergamino” or shelled maize
De-germination Clasificación
Bran (pericarpio + germen) de-germed corn
Automatic packing supervision
manual packing Producto: Mazamorra “El Choclo”
New packing and labeling of the product
* Según Resolución 288 de 2008, Ministerio de la Protección Social, República de Colombia
Información Nutricional* Tamaño por porción 50 g
Contiene 5 porciones
Cantidad por porción
Calorías 170
Valor Diario*
Sodio 8 mg 0%
Carbohidrato Total 40 g 13%
Fibra dietaria 2 g 8%
Azúcares 8 g
Proteína 3 g 6%
Hierro 20% No es fuente significativa de Grasa Total, Grasa Saturada, Grasa Trans, Colesterol, Vitamina A, Vitamina C y Calcio.
* Los porcentajes de Valores Diarios están basados en una dieta de 2000 calorías. Sus valores diarios pueden ser mayores o menores dependiendo de sus necesidades calóricas.
Product marketing – Colombia
Biofortified Cultivar Development
Developing Farmers
Quality, safety and innovation management along the
agri-food chain and socio-economic impact
Technology transformation and application
Nutrition Valorization
Implementation
Brazil: In Partnership with Embrapa
Pepsico Bridges Agriculture & Nutrition
Cassava
Strategic Partnership
Sweet Potato
Corn
Wheat
A Multi-stakeholder Approach To Deliver Innovative Solutions: The Brazilian Case
+
Strategic partnership
Signed MOU/ Agreement in 2011 in order to
conduct the first scale tests
+ 70 % maize
30 % yellow
cassava
BRS Jari
100 % yellow
cassava BRS
Jari
Plans for the future in LAC
HarvestPlus Planning Meeting
Cali, Colombia, Feb 25 – 28, 2013
Country priority setting using a Biofortification Priority Index (BPI) developed by HarvestPlus team.
Participants: HarvestPlus breeders, nutritionists, economists
How are countries prioritized?
To be a H+ priority, a country must: 1. Produce the crop - a significant proportion of production
must be used for domestic consumption;
2. Consume much of the crop on a per-capita basis; and
3. Have a high level of micronutrient deficiency (vitamin A, Iron or zinc).
Countries Rice (zinc)
Beans (zinc-iron)
Maize (zinc)
Maize (Vit A)
Cassava (Vit A)
Sweet Pot (Vit A)
1. Nicaragua (1) x x x
2. Guatemala – Mex. (South) (1)
`x x
3. Honduras >more inform
x
4. Bolivia ?? x x x??
Potential country/crop/micronutrient
combinations for investment
Countries Rice (zinc)
Beans (zinc-iron)
Maize (zinc)
Maize (Vit A)
Cassava (Vit A)
Sweet Pot (Vit A)
A . Panama X (Rural) X (indigenous)
x X(indigen.)
B. Colombia X (North Coast)
X (North Coast)
x x x
Countries that requested technical
assistance in all topics
Potential countries...
According to BPI, these countries could be candidates for a H+ program;
Countries Rice (zinc)
Beans (zinc-iron)
Maize (zinc)
Maize (Vit A)
Cassava (Vit A)
Sweet Pot (Vit A)
Jamaica (??) x
Cuba (??) x X spill over x
Haiti
Considering the country’s situation, a special project would be needed for Haiti.
Countries Rice (zinc)
Beans (zinc-iron)
Maize (zinc)
Maize (Vit A)
Cassava (Vit A)
Sweet Pot (Vit A)
Haiti x x x x x x
Countries Rice (zinc)
Beans (zinc-iron)
Maize (zinc)
Maize (Vit A)
Cassava (Vit A)
Sweet Pot (Vit A)
El Salvador x
Peru (Amazonia) X
Indirect benefiting countries
Some potential countries that are not targets (low BPI), but could be beneficiaries of the HarvestPlus technologies (spillovers).
5 Takeover messages
1) Biofortification is a strategy for combatting micronutrient deficiency
in LAC, especially in rural areas
2) Due to the diverse diets in LAC we are advocating "food basket"
approach
3) We have been functioning in LAC for a while, with great successes
in breeding and also in raising awareness and building
partnerships in research in the public and private sectors
4) Special emphasis to the development of healthy processed
products
5) In phase III of Harvestplus (2014-2018) we want to increase our
investments in LAC
The results presented here are a consequence of a team work strategy which integrated more than 200 people in different regions of Brazil and LAC, working tightly in order to reach the HarvestPlus , A4NH and BioFORT expected deliverables. We wish to express our gratitude to Embrapa, the HarvestPlus and A4NH programs for all the support without which this work could not be carried out.
Thank you ... Obrigada!