plenary bouis tuesday
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Howarth Bouis Director, HarvestPlus
The Primary Source of Essential Minerals Vitamins
Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)
Why have solutions to malnutrition been sought
outside of agriculture?
Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)
Sir Albert Howard, 1873-1947
Linking Agriculture and Nutrition A New Paradigm
Photo: EMBRAPA
Photo: CIAT Photo: EMBRAPA
Targeted: poor people eat staples
Photo: IRRI
Non-Staple plants
Fish and Meat
Staple foods
Share of Energy Sources: Rural Bangladesh
Sustainable for famers
Photo: A.M. Ball
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Changes in Cereal & Pulse Production & Population, Green Revolution to 2000
Cereals Pulses Population
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50% Increase in All Food Prices
Animal Staples
Non-Food
Staples
Non-Food
Before Share of Total Expenditures
Targeted at Rural Poor: Complements Supplementation and
Fortification Photo: IRRI
Cost-effective: one time investment in research
Photo: ICRISAT
How Would You Best Spend
$75 billion?
TOP FIVE SOLUTIONS CHALLENGE
1. Micronutrient supplements for children
Malnutrition
2. Doha development agenda Trade
3. Micronutrient fortification Malnutrition
4. Expanded immunization coverage for children
Diseases
5. Biofortification Malnutrition
#1 Can breeding increase nutrient levels enough to improve human nutrition?
Photo: Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Photo: Fabiana deMoura
#2 Will extra nutrients be bioavailable at sufficient levels to improve micronutrient status?
#3 Will farmers adopt crops and will consumers buy & eat enough?
Photos: Neil Palmer (CIAT)
Photo: R.A. Stevens Photo: CIMMYT Photo: CIMMYT
Progress in Breeding I
• Genetic Variation
• Nutrient + Yield
• Transgenics
• High Throughput
Progress in Breeding II Progress in Breeding II
• Genes/MAS
• NARS Capacity
• Release
Photo :IRRI
Progress in Nutrition I
• Bioavailability
• Consumption
• Retention
Photo : Embrapa
Progress in Nutrition II
• Efficacy
• Effectiveness
Photo: H. Nsubuga
Sergipe, Brazil
Progress in Delivery/Impact
Photo: Embrapa
Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato in Uganda and Mozambique
Photo: HarvestPlus
What is the Way Forward? Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)
Work out optimal delivery
strategies for getting biofortified
foods to people Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)
Ensure & measure a
public health impact
Develop a better understanding of how foods (and nutrients and compounds)
impact human nutrition
Get the agricultural
sector to prioritize
improving nutrition
Get the nutrition
community to prioritize
agriculture to improve nutrition
Photo: NIRRI
Optimal delivery strategies for getting biofortified foods to people
Ensure & measure a public health impact
Develop better understanding of how foods impact human nutrition
Get agricultural sector to prioritize nutrition
Get nutrition community to prioritize agriculture to improve nutrition
thank you
Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)