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Nutrition
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 will promote the use of agricultural biodiversity within food production systems by working with smallholder farmers, and will show that by diversifying diets, using local and traditional foods, it can be a sustainable tool to address malnutrition in developing countries.
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Our beneficiaries - smallholder farmers in developing countries |
Our strategy - using food and nutrition system approaches to improve human nutrition and health |
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Bioversity International Nutrition Strategy 2011-2012 (summary) (230 KB)
Administration AreaCROP WILD RELATIVES | EURISCO | THE AGROBIODIVERSITY GRAPEVINE | PROMUSA | PLATFORM FOR AGROBIODIVERSITY RESEARCH
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This work by Bioversity International is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. |
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