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Global Grid of Genetic Gardens of Biofortified Crops


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1 World Food Prize Selection Committee, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, India
 

The 2016 Global Nutrition Report of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) indicates that one of the high priorities of humankind should be ending malnutrition, because of its multiple adverse impact on human health and quality of life. Children are the worst victims and it is now realized that we should adopt a life cycle approach in terms of nutrition intake with special emphasis on the first thousand days in a child's life.
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M. S. Swaminathan
World Food Prize Selection Committee, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai 600 113, India

Abstract


The 2016 Global Nutrition Report of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) indicates that one of the high priorities of humankind should be ending malnutrition, because of its multiple adverse impact on human health and quality of life. Children are the worst victims and it is now realized that we should adopt a life cycle approach in terms of nutrition intake with special emphasis on the first thousand days in a child's life.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv111%2Fi6%2F965-965