Rationale and objective: Improving diet quality while decreasing environmental impacts is an important challenge for a healthy and sustainable food system.
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Role of socio-economic research in developing, delivering and scaling new crop varieties: the case of staple crop biofortification
The CGIAR biofortification program, HarvestPlus, was founded with the aim of improving the quality of diets through micronutrient-dense varieties of staple food crops.
The role of Zn in human health was discovered 60 years ago, and despite remarkable research efforts, a sufficiently sensitive and specific biomarker of Zn status is still lacking.
Critical review of indicators, metrics, methods, and tools for monitoring and evaluation of biofortification programs at scale
Sound monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems are needed to inform effective biofortification program management and implementation.
Milk product safety and household food hygiene influence bacterial contamination of infant food in peri-urban Kenya
Background: Milk is a common infant food in peri-urban Kenya that can transmit diarrhea-causing enteric pathogens.
Consumption of microbiologically contaminated food is one of the leading causes of diarrheal diseases. Understanding the source of enteric pathogens in food is important to guide effective interventions.