1. Howarth Bouis
Director, HarvestPlus

2. The Primary Source of
Essential Minerals Vitamins
Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

3. Why have solutions to
malnutrition been sought
outside of agriculture?
Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

4. Sir Albert Howard, 1873-1947

5. Linking Agriculture and Nutrition
A New Paradigm
Photo: EMBRAPA
Photo: CIATPhoto: EMBRAPA

6. Targeted: poor people eat staples
Photo: IRRI

7. Non-Staple
plants
Fish and Meat
Staple foods
Share of Energy Sources:
Rural Bangladesh

8. Sustainable for famers
Photo: A.M. Ball

9. 0
50
100
150
200
250 India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Developing
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Developing
World
Developing
Changes in Cereal & Pulse Production
& Population, Green Revolution to 2000
Cereals Pulses Population

10. After
50% Increase in All Food Prices
Animal Staples
Non-Food
Staples
Non-Food
Before
Share of Total Expenditures

11. Targeted at Rural Poor:
Complements Supplementation and
Fortification Photo: IRRI

12. Cost-effective: one time
investment in research
Photo: ICRISAT

13. How Would You Best Spend
$75 billion?

14. TOP FIVE SOLUTIONS CHALLENGE
1. Micronutrient supplements
for children
Malnutrition
2. Doha development agenda Trade
3. Micronutrient fortification
Malnutrition
4. Expanded immunization
coverage for children
Diseases
5. Biofortification Malnutrition

15. #1 Can breeding increase nutrient
levels enough to improve human
nutrition?
Photo: Wolfgang Pfeiffer

16. Photo: Fabiana deMoura
#2 Will extra nutrients be
bioavailable at sufficient levels to
improve micronutrient status?

17. #3 Will farmers adopt crops and will
consumers buy & eat enough?
Photos: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

18. Photo: R.A. StevensPhoto: CIMMYT Photo: CIMMYT
Progress in Breeding I
• Genetic Variation
• Nutrient + Yield
• Transgenics
• High Throughput

19. Progress in Breeding IIProgress in Breeding II
• Genes/MAS
• NARS Capacity
• Release
Photo :IRRI

20. Progress in Nutrition I
• Bioavailability
• Consumption
• Retention
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21. Progress in Nutrition II
• Efficacy
• Effectiveness
Photo: H. Nsubuga

22. Sergipe, Brazil
Progress in Delivery/Impact
Photo: Embrapa

23. Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato in
Uganda and Mozambique
Photo: HarvestPlus

24. What is the Way Forward?
Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

25. Work out
optimal
delivery
strategies
for getting
biofortified
foods to
peoplePhoto: Neil Palmer (CIAT)

26. Ensure &
measure a
public health
impact

27. Develop a better
understanding of
how foods (and
nutrients and
compounds)
impact human
nutrition

28. Get the
agricultural
sector to
prioritize
improving
nutrition

29. Get the
nutrition
community to
prioritize
agriculture to
improve
nutrition
Photo: NIRRI

30. Optimal delivery strategies for getting
biofortified foods to people
Ensure & measure a public health
impact
Develop better understanding of how
foods impact human nutrition
Get agricultural sector to prioritize
nutrition
Get nutrition community to prioritize
agriculture to improve nutrition

31. thank you
Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT)