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Is Fortification or Bio Fortification of Staple Food Crops will Offer a Simple Solution to Complex Nutritional Disorder in Developing Countries?

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http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2155-9600.1000351
 
Title Is Fortification or Bio Fortification of Staple Food Crops will Offer a Simple Solution to Complex Nutritional Disorder in Developing Countries?
 
Creator Govindaraj, M
 
Subject Food and Nutrition
 
Description Large segment of global populations, especially in developing countries is currently at risk from one or more
micronutrient deficiency, so called malnutrition. This could be due to our current food systems are fail to provide
enough balanced dietary nutrients to meet all the nutritional requirements of every individual, especially resource-poor
women and children in the developing countries. A variety of interventions have been used to address micronutrient
malnutrition so far such as pharmaceutical supplementation, industrial fortifications and dietary diversification.
However, success of supplementation and fortification in developing countries remains challenges due to poor
infrastructure, delivery system, more often it need sustained investment year-after-year. Of course dietary diversity
is an immediate issue of diverse food affordability since a sharp increase in food prices will have a large impact on
rural-poor households’ who’s represent the most segment of malnourished population. Researchers now focusing
an food based intervention so called biofortification (developing a cultivars with elevated micronutrients in their
edible parts through convetional breeding or biotechnology) is found to be sustainable intervention, even if external
support fails, biofortification will continue to combat multiple micronutrient deficiency simultaneously generation after
generations. Though this strategy is not an Einstein idea but it was a pessimistic view for longtime among the
community, however, with the advent of modern and advanced technology we deliberately believes it can be made
successful in optimistic way by transforming the dynamic results into reality. Therefore, present view and optimism
are more towards the biofortification of staples for better human nutrition to acieve appropriate nutrient level in the
biofortifed cultivars and further research is required to upscale at the global level to prove as an effective strategy
 
Publisher Omics International
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8667/1/JNutrFoodSci_5_2_1-4_2015.pdf
Govindaraj, M (2015) Is Fortification or Bio Fortification of Staple Food Crops will Offer a Simple Solution to Complex Nutritional Disorder in Developing Countries? Journal Nutrition Food Science, 5 (2). pp. 1-4. ISSN 2155-9600