Nutrient-Enriched Crops Could Save Millions Of Poor
WASHINGTON. D.C. - New
mineral-enriched varieties of the
world’s most common food crops
could prevent malnutrition and
disease in millions of the world’s
poorest people, international sci
entists announced.
In a newly launched program,
the Consultative Group on Inter
national Agricultural Research
(CGIAR), Waite Agricultural Re
search Institute at the University
of Adelaide, Australia, the U.S.
Center
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Rams accepted for the perfor
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Department of Agriculture’s
Plant Soil, and Nutrition Labora
tory at Cornell University, and
other research institutes in 12
countries are developing new var
ieties of crops such as com, rice,
and wheat that will be better at ab
sorbing critical minerals directly
from the soil. These crops will
perform particularly well on min
eral-deficient soils, which are
widespread in the developing
world.
‘This is a low-cost approach to
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rams are weighed every 14 days
and reports are generated and dis
tributed at least every other weigh
date.
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thickness and loin-eye area. The
rams are all examined for breed
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After all of the evaluations are
completed, approximately the top
75 percent of the rams completing
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fighting malnutrition that could
improve farm productivity and
benefit the environment at the
same time,” said Howarth E.
Bouis, director of the CGIAR Mi
cronutrients Project and research
fellow at the Internationa] Food
Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Washington, D.C.-based IFPRI
coordinates human nutrition re
search for the 17 centers of the
CGIAR.
“Crops such as corn, rice,
wheat, beans, and cassava, which
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are the primary sources of food for
the vast majority of the world’s
poor, lack sufficient amounts of
essential vitamins and minerals
that prevent disease. The CGIAR
Micronutrients Project could have
nutrient-enriched crops ready for
commercial production within six
to ten years.”
Such mineral-enriched crops
also have been shown to outyield
present crop varieties and to re
quire fewer chemical inputs and
less irrigation, thuse reducing the
This aids producers in making
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costs of growing them and better
protecting the environment. These
agronomic advantages enhance
the chances that they would be
adopted by fanners in the devel
oping world. But mineral-enrich
ed crops would also enhance com
mercial agriculture in the United
States and other developed-world
countries where mineral-deficient
soils are also widespread.
“The research costs for devel
oping mineral-dense varieties can
be justified on the basis of the
benefits to agricultural productivi
ty alone,” said Bouis.
Diets low in essential vitamins
and minerals such as iron, iodine,
zinc, and vitamin A are prevalent
in poor countries. An estimated
2.1 billion people lack sufficient
amounts of iron, contributing to
anemia in an estimated 1.2 billion
people. Anemia affects pregnant
women particularly hard and ac
counts fra* up to 40 percent of the
half-million deaths that occur each
year to women giving birth.
The World Health Organization
estimates that 125 million pre
school children worldwide suffer
severe vitamin A deficiency,
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rates of child mortality due to an
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