Biofortification is a set of approaches to boost nutrients in food that have been lost due to industrial agriculture practices. Biofortification risks making our current industrial agriculture system ...

Micronutrient malnutrition is caused by a lack of vitamins and minerals in the diet. Poor people are particularly vulnerable to micronutrient malnutrition, as their diets consist mainly of grains and ...

When the seeds of plants such as pea and sunflower are biofortified with zinc, the seedlings they quickly produce—harvested as microgreens—could both help to mitigate global malnutrition and boost the ...

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A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bullet In 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas ...

Many people who live in Lira district in northern Uganda consider Perpetua Okao a farmer and a life saver—and it is easy to know why. Her neighbour’s son was malnourished and often sickly. But after ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Biofortification is becoming the new way to tackle what some call micronutrient malnutrition. Various biofortification projects are underway in many parts of the developing world.

The zinc biofortification component is an important new innovation. Biofortification is the process of growing crops to increase nutritional value from the seed on, Di Gioia explained. It is different ...