Advantages and disadvantages of biofortification
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Breeding crops to be naturally higher in nutrients through a process called biofortification, is a promising new strategy to reduce hidden hunger that has several advantages. First, as a food-based intervention, biofortification uses the very staple foods that the poor are already eating to deliver necessary micronutrients to them. Therefore, biofortified foods are more easily integrated into the livelihoods and diets of the poor. Second, it is an agricultural intervention targeted to rural areas where more than seventy-five percent of the poor in developing countries live, and where access to supplements, fortified foods and other urban-based interventions are limited.
Breeding crops to be naturally higher in nutrients through a process called biofortification, is a promising new strategy to reduce hidden hunger that has several advantages. First, as a food-based intervention, biofortification uses the very staple foods that the poor are already eating to deliver necessary micronutrients to them. Therefore, biofortified foods are more easily integrated into the livelihoods and diets of the poor. Second, it is an agricultural intervention targeted to rural areas where more than seventy-five percent of the poor in developing countries live, and where access to supplements, fortified foods and other urban-based interventions are limited.
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