Nutrition

Promoting nutritious African Leafy Vegetables as part of a Bioversity project in Kenya. Photo: S. Mann/Bioversity

Promoting nutritious African Leafy Vegetables as part of a Bioversity project in Kenya. Photo: S. Mann/Bioversity

Bioversity International is a leading research for development organisation dedicated to the use and conservation of biodiversity in agriculture to combat poverty and malnutrition and to enhance the sustainability of agriculture.

An estimated 925 million people are hungry around the world and 175 million children, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, are stunted due to chronic malnourishment.

Food security is not just about the producing enough food for everyone, it is also about the nutritional quality and diversity of that food.

Bioversity International's nutrition programme  [1] will promote the use of agricultural biodiversity within food production systems by working with smallholder farmers  [2], and will show that by diversifying diets, using local and traditional foods  [3], it can be a sustainable tool to address malnutrition  [4] in developing countries.

Read more:

Global malnutrition - the context
  [4]

Our beneficiaries - smallholder farmers in developing countries
  [2]

Our tools - agricultural biodiversity research  [5]

Our strategy - using food and nutrition system approaches to improve human nutrition and health  [1]

Our partners and advisory council  [6]

Download our nutrition strategy:

 Bioversity International Nutrition Strategy 2011-2012 (summary) (230 KB)  [7]

 Bioversity International Nutrition Strategy 2011-2012 (full version) (1.6 MB)  [8]

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Filed under: Nutrition  [12]See also: Food Security  [13], Malnutrition  [14], Micronutrients  [15], Nutrition  [16]
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  • [10] http://www.bioversityinternational.org/announcements/nutrition_strategy_online.html
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