Healthy diets start with nutritious food systems. 🌱
Through biofortification, HarvestPlus works to improve the nutritional quality of staple crops, making essential micronutrients accessible. This #WorldDiabetesDay, let's make healthy food choices easier for everyone.
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Strong evidence drives better nutrition solutions.
For over 20 years, HarvestPlus has contributed to research demonstrating the nutritional, health and economic benefits of biofortification. Evidence accelerates scaling.
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DID YOU KNOW? 🌱
For biofortified crops to reach more people, they must work for farmers too. Agronomic performance, seed availability and farmer preferences all matter. @HarvestPlusSoln
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Behind every #biofortified harvest is a #farmer. 🌱
Access to quality seed, knowledge and markets can help farmers grow nutritious crops for households and consumers.
Farmers are at the heart of biofortification.
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#Biofortification uses plant breeding to increase the levels of essential nutrients in crops.
Think #iron beans, #zinc wheat and #vitaminA-rich orange-fleshed sweet potato.
Better nutrition can begin with the seed!
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#Pakistan's zinc-biofortified wheat story shows why nutrition innovation needs more than research.
It needs seed systems, farmers, markets, investment and partnerships.
Science creates possibilities. Markets can help sustain them. @HarvestPlusSoln
#HarvestPlus #ZincWheat
🌱 A pioneering vision. A lasting legacy.
HarvestPlus founder @HowdyBouis speaks at #BorlaugDialogue on turning agricultural innovation into farmer impact.
📅 Oct 21 | 7:15–8:15 p.m.
📍 Join the session and be part of the conversation!
#Biofortification #BeforeHungerWins
🌱 #WorldFoodDay: Innovate today, nourish tomorrow!
HarvestPlus works with partners to scale #biofortified crops, making essential vitamins and minerals more accessible through everyday foods. An estimated #651M people now consume biofortified foods.
#FoodSecurity #Nutrition
🌱 Better food. Stronger livelihoods. More resilient food systems. This #WorldFoodDay, we celebrate innovation that delivers impact beyond the harvest such as Zimbabwe’s Matsaru family producing 5 tons of vitamin A maize seed.
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School meals can do more than feed children.
They can create demand for nutritious foods, support farmers and strengthen local food value chains. Learn more about nutritious homegrown school meals: youtu.be/D5piqsqTaUE?si=69il…
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What does it take to nourish tomorrow?
🌱 Seed
🔬 Science
👩🏾🌾 Farmers
🏪 Markets
🏭 Businesses
🏫 Institutions
🤝 Partnerships
🍲 Food
This #WorldFoodDay, we're following the journey from seed to scale.
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🌽 Orange maize
🍠 Orange-fleshed sweet potato
🫘 Iron beans
🌾 Zinc rice
Which would you choose?
Different foods. Different #nutrients.
One bigger idea: #healthy diets need #diversity.
#HarvestPlus #Nutrition
Women are farmers, entrepreneurs, traders and decision-makers.
They are also helping move nutritious foods through food systems.
Building better food systems means ensuring women have the resources and opportunities to shape them.
#HarvestPlus #WomenFarmers #FoodSystems
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A new crop variety is only useful when farmers can access it, grow it, see its value and find a market.
Innovation doesn't stop in the laboratory.
It has to work in the field. 🌱
#HarvestPlus #Farmers #FromSeedToScale
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What started as new knowledge became food on the table, income in the household & a healthier choice for the family. After training in agronomy, nutrition and market linkages, the Matsaru family adopted vitamin A orange maize, planted 1 hectare and harvested 5 tonnes. 👩🏽🌾🌽 – at Zimbabwe
A better crop is only the beginning. 🌱
Research → Seed → Farmer → Business → Market → Consumer → Nutrition
Biofortification is ultimately about building food systems that make nutritious foods more accessible. Learn more from our Annual Report: harvestplus.solutions/annual…
❤️ This #WorldHeartDay, let’s put healthy diets at the heart of healthier lives.
HarvestPlus works with partners to make nutritious foods more accessible.
Healthier food systems help make healthier choices possible.
#WorldHeartDay #Nutrition #Biofortification #HarvestPlus
Can #nutrition and #climate #resilience be part of the same conversation?
Yes.
Farmers need crops that are nutritious and perform under challenging conditions.
#Nutrition + #agriculture + #climateresilience must be considered together. @CGIAR
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🌱 Faces of #Biofortification
Meet Ivy Nyirongo, Farmer, Zimbabwe.
Her work is helping move biofortification from research → field → food → impact.
Tag someone who is helping build a more nutritious food system.
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