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News
November 12, 2014
Music Video Promotes Healthy Eating – Through Beans!
Rwanda’s top musicians have united to promote better nutrition and health through a catchy new music video produced by HarvestPlus! The song highlights the
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Biofortification
October 29, 2014
What’s Next for Biofortification in Africa Post-Kigali?
HarvestPlus is hosting a series of five webinars to follow up on the Second Global Conference on Biofortification that was
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Biofortification
October 16, 2014
New Study Finds that Orange Maize Improves Vitamin A in Children
Biofortified “orange” maize can increase body stores of vitamin A in children. This is the finding of an efficacy study
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Biofortification
October 10, 2014
HarvestPlus announced the release of the 2013 Annual Report
In 2013, biofortified nutritious crops reached more than a million farmers in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia. The
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2014
October 6, 2014
Building Pathways to Success: Why HarvestPlus Commissioned a Strategic Gender Assessment
Doing gender research is one thing; integrating gender into a research program is another altogether.  HarvestPlus recently completed a year-long Strategic
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Biofortification
July 16, 2014
How to better nourish 9 billion
As part of the "Nourishing 9 Billion" symposium at the 2014 American Society for Plant Biologists Annual Meeting in Portland,
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Biofortification
April 22, 2014
Global Policymakers Commit to Scaling-Up Nutritious Foods to Reach Millions
Global policymakers, meeting in Kigali earlier this month at the 2nd Global Conference on Biofortification, committed to making biofortified nutritious
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Biofortification
April 2, 2014
CGIAR Commits to Mainstreaming Breeding for Mineral & Vitamin Traits
(Cross-posted from CGIAR.org, written by Frank Rijsberman.) When HarvestPlus started ten years ago as a joint program of CIAT and IFPRI, with the goal of
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Events
April 1, 2014
‘Bridging Discovery and Delivery’
Bridging discovery and delivery.   This is the theme for the Micronutrient Forum 2014, which will be held in Addis Ababa,
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