This document discusses objectives and ongoing work for improving micronutrient deficiencies in Latin America through biofortified crops. The objectives are to: 1) improve impacts of biofortified products on micronutrient deficient populations; 2) identify production and consumption chains for delivering biofortified crops to those in need; and 3) analyze this for researchers and beneficiaries. The ongoing work includes analyzing crop production locations, consumption patterns, targeting priority areas, and determining trial sites based on climate similarities to priority areas.

1. Objectives
• Improve chances that biofortified products will
have positive impacts on micronutrient
deficient populations in Latin America
• identify where and how biofortified products
can move through production and
consumption chains that reach micronutrient
deficient populations, and to bring this
analysis to researchers and beneficiaries

2. • Food production
• Food consumption
• Targeting priority areas
• Determining where to site trials
• Influences of food preferences
• Implications of trade
• Implications of past adoption
• Optimizing use of available data
Ongoing work

3. Where are
crops
produced?
Cassava Maize
Sw PotRiceBeans

4. Consumption,
implications
- assumes 66 ppm for beans
- shows the consumption pattern
- can we estimate the total MN buget?
- for AgroSalud household surveys
for Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras
Nicaragua and Peru

5. Targeting for AgroSalud
• Cartographic modeling
• Using production, population & health
• Creating indices (scale data 0- 1; cube root for
production; multiplicative index of 3 factors;
filter data to derive homogenous areas).

6. Targeting
beansPopulation
Bean
Production
Stunting
x
x
=
Target

7. To identify trial sites
similar to priority
target sites based on
climate
Homologue

8. Maize color
preferencesMaize color
preferences

9. Beans,
imports
Imports, Costa Rica
Argentina 18,473
Nicaragua 3,505
Honduras 2,993
Guatemala 2,741
Canada 771
US 567
Colombia 139
Panama 12
China 5
Imports, Venzuela
Argentina 75,242
China 13,522
Canada 9,409
Chile 7,961
US 3,545
Peru 1,402
Colombia 925
Belize 471
Burkina Faso 109
Belgium 91
Netherlands 42
Panama 42
Ecuador 40
Malawi 21

10. Adoption (MVs % area, SPIA, 2000)
Rice Maize Cassava Beans
Under-
weight %
Stunted
%
Argentina 0 90 0 79 5 12
Bolivia 0 0 0 84 8 27
Brazil 30 70 3 52 4 6
Chile 0 40 0 0 1 2
Colombia 87 0 0 11 7 14
Costa Rica 0 40 0 86 5 4
Cuba 99 0 0 0
Dominican Rp 81 0 51 0 5 13
Ecuador 59 0 5 21 14 13
El Salvador 0 0 0 27 12 13
Guatemala 0 0 0 40 24 46
Haiti 0 0 71 0 17 23
Honduras 0 0 0 45 17 39
Jamaica 0 0 0 0 4 4
Mexico 0 50 5 0 8 18
Nicaragua 0 0 0 30 12 25
Panama 0 0 0 42 6 18
Paraguay 0 40 0 0 4 14
Peru 0 40 0 17 7 25
Uruguay 0 0 0 0 4 10
Venezuela 0 40 0 0 4 13

11. Information
categories for
browsing
Update list and
RSS capacity
Search
AgroSalud
and other data
catalogs
http://gisweb.ciat.cgiar.org:8080/agrosalud/
Standardized documentation tool
Catálogo AgroSalud
Registered users
with capacity to set
restrictions on
access to metadata

12. Atlas AgroSalud - ArcReader
Poverty Indicators
Health Indicators
Crop Distribution
Agroecology
Farming systems
Consumption data

13. Demo: participatory
geographic targeting