Biofortification: Future Challenges for a Newly Emerging Technology to Improve Nutrition Security Sustainably.

ABSTRACT: Biofortification was coined as a term to define a plant breeding strategy to increase the micronutrient content of staple food crops to reduce the burden of micronutrient deficiencies in low- and middle-income countries. In 2003, the HarvestPlus program, based in the centers comprising the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, was initiated to implement the biofortification strategy. This article discusses what has been achieved, what has been learned, and the key challenges to embed biofortification in food systems and to expand its impact. Cost-effectiveness is key to the biofortification strategy. Biofortification piggybacks on the agronomically superior varieties being developed at agricultural research centers. Central plant breeding research discoveries can be sp

SUBMITTER: Bouis H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11635736 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature