{"id":13138,"date":"2026-06-20T12:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/policymakers-to-meet-in-kigali-on-getting-nutritious-foods-to-people\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:28","slug":"policymakers-to-meet-in-kigali-on-getting-nutritious-foods-to-people","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/policymakers-to-meet-in-kigali-on-getting-nutritious-foods-to-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Policymakers to meet in Kigali on getting nutritious foods to people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 31 March, more than 275 high-level stakeholders from government, business,  and civil society will converge in Kigali, Rw anda, for a three-day consultation on \u2018Getting Nutritious Foods to People.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly one in three people globally suffers from a lack of essential vitamins  and minerals such as vitamin A, zinc,  and iron in the diet. This condition \u2013 known as hidden hunger \u2013 increases the risk of stunting, anemia, blindness, infectious diseases,  and even death. Women  and children are especially vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HarvestPlus, a global program to improve nutrition  and public health, has worked with partners to develop new varieties of nutritious food crops that provide more vitamin A, zinc, or iron. These crops \u2013 already being grown by more than a million farmers \u2013 have been conventionally bred. They include cassava, maize,  and orange sweetpotato for vitamin A; beans  and pearl millet for iron;  and rice  and wheat for zinc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Studies have shown that these new varieties do provide nutritional benefits to consumers. \u201cWe\u2019re just beginning to scratch the surface\u2026we want to increase access to these nutritious crops as quickly as possible. Now is the time to bring partners together to figure out how we do this together,\u201d says Howarth Bouis, the Director of HarvestPlus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conference is being hosted by the Government of Rw anda. More than 500,000 Rw andan farmers have already planted new varieties of beans that are rich in iron. These new iron beans also yield many more tons per hectare than the local varieties,  and the surplus can be shared or sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keynote speakers include M.S. Swaminathan, the renowned father of India\u2019s Green Revolution; Chris Elias, President of the Global Development Program at the Bill  and Melinda Gates Foundation;  and, Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Agriculture  and Rural Development  and Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2013. Adesina serves on the Global Panel on Agriculture  and Food Systems for Nutrition, a newly formed expert group that advises on nutrition-enhancing agricultural  and food policies  and investments. The panel will convene a special session to explore how biofortification could help decision makers in developing nutrition-sensitive agriculture  and food policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe evidence is promising,  and we now need to explore the potential for biofortification to enhance agriculture  and food policies for nutrition,\u201d says Jeff Waage, Technical Advisor to the Global Panel  and Director of the London International Development Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The invitation-only consultation will be livestreamed  and moderated by Jeff Koinange, an award-winning Kenyan journalist  and past Chief Anchor for Africa for Arise Television  and CNN Senior Africa Correspondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pour plus d'informations, veuillez visiter le <a href=\"http:\/\/biofortconf.ifpri.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference website<\/a>. Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvestplus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HarvestPlus<\/a>. Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glopan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Panel on Agriculture  and Food Systems for Nutrition<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">HarvestPlus, c\/o IFPRI 2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006-1002 USA Tel.: +1-202-862-5600 \u2022 Fax: +1-202-467-4439 \u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvestplus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.harvestplus.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Media Contact: Vidushi Sinha, HarvestPlus, <a>v.s.vidushi@cgiar.org<\/a> Tel: +1 202-862-4686, +250-788-386198<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 31 March, more than 275 high-level stakeholders from government, business, and civil society will converge in Kigali, Rwanda, for a three-day consultation on \u2018Getting Nutritious Foods to People&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[40],"news-type":[],"hub":[],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[192],"class_list":["post-13138","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","hentry","location-rwanda","item-year-192"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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