Background
Zinc-biofortified potatoes have considerable potential to reduce zinc deficiency because of their low levels of phytate, an inhibitor of zinc absorption, and their high consumption, especially in the Andean region of Peru.
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Background
Yellow fleshed potatoes biofortified with iron have been developed through conventional breeding but the bioavailability of the iron is unknown.
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: Lessons from eight landscape-level cases
Multistakeholder platforms (MSPs) are the subject of increasing attention and investment in the domain of collaborative natural resource governance, yet evidence-based guidance is slim on policy and investment priorities to leverage the MSP approa
On the origins of food loss
Child stunting and linear growth faltering have declined over the past few decades and several countries have made exemplary progress.
Iron deficiency and schooling attainment in Peru
The effects of electrification on employment in rural Peru
Excluding the rural population
Parametric versus nonparametric methods in risk scoring
Breaking the norm
Educational performance and spatial convergence in Peru
Maternal zinc supplementation and growth in Peruvian infants
Ethnicity and earnings in a mixed race labor market
This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have coexisted and mixed during several centuries, as is in many parts of the post-colonial world, and specifically Urban Peru.