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 ...

Biofortification, the process of increasing the micronutrient content of a food crop through selective breeding, genetic modification, or enriched fertilizers, was first proposed in the 1990s as a low ...

Two billion people lack essential vitamins and minerals. One solution for tackling this “hidden hunger” unites agriculture and nutrition to improve the health and livelihoods of smallholder farming ...

Pakistan is currently grappling with interconnected challenges of rising poverty, growing food insecurity, escalating undernutrition, and increasing ‘hidden hunger’ — deficiencies of essential ...

After decades in development, the Philippines became the first country on July 21st of this year to formally approve the commercial propagation of so-called golden rice. This is a rice strain that has ...

New varieties of staple crops are being developed to tackle hunger, under-nutrition and malnutrition and boost farmers’ income.They are available to farmers in 40 countries, according to the ...

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 ...