{"id":13613,"date":"2026-06-20T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/nutritious-food-fair-2019-calls-for-intensified-efforts-to-ensure-adequate-nutrition-for-everyone\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:37:36","slug":"nutritious-food-fair-2019-calls-for-intensified-efforts-to-ensure-adequate-nutrition-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/nutritious-food-fair-2019-calls-for-intensified-efforts-to-ensure-adequate-nutrition-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutritious Food Fair 2019 calls for intensified efforts to ensure adequate nutrition for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth edition of the HarvestPlus Nutritious Food Fair<\/a><\/u> (NFF) with the theme \u201cNutrition is everybody\u2019s business\u201d took place in Ibadan, Nigeria at the IITA<\/a><\/u> Headquarters. NFF is an annual flagship event of HarvestPlus Nigeria, which aims to drive the production, consumption, and marketing of nutritious food in Nigeria. This year, the fair took place from 13 to 15 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Partners of HarvestPlus Nigeria preach the message of nutrition.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his opening remarks, Kenton<\/a> Dashiell<\/u> IITA Deputy Director General, Partnerships for Delivery, described IITA and HarvestPlus as \u201cfamily\u201d, because both have a mission to improve the health and nutrition of people all over Africa and the world.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re here to change things, and every year we should be able to see at least a change, an improvement in the health and nutrition of our people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arun<\/a> Baral<\/u>, Chief Executive Officer of HarvestPlus, was pleased to see that many stakeholders are taking nutrition and health more seriously, and according to him, \u201ctaking biofortification to the next level\u2014where biofortified foods are available on everyone\u2019s table.\u201d He added that the food fair platform is unique to Nigeria, thereby setting the country as a model to the world on how to solve nutrition problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Ilona, Country Director, HarvestPlus Nigeria, said, \u201cHarvestPlus is multisectorial and multidisciplinary.\u201d With over 60 partners in the public and private sectors, research institutes as well as foundations and civil societies, HarvestPlus works on large-scale food fortification, scaling up the nutrition business network, improving national government policies, a postharvest loss alliance for nutrition, and better diets for children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s NFF reiterated the importance of biofortification as well as availability and accessibility of biofortified crops, as nearly 50 million people in Nigeria are Vitamin A deficient. Erick Boy-Gallego, Head of Nutrition, HarvestPlus described biofortification as: \u201cAn evidence-based intervention to tackle micronutrient malnutrition.\u201d HarvestPlus and partners are working to ensure that nutrition is on the table whenever agricultural productivity comes up.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fifth edition of the HarvestPlus Nutritious Food Fair (NFF) with the theme \u201cNutrition is everybody\u2019s business\u201d took place in Ibadan, Nigeria at the IITA Headquarters. NFF is an annual flagship event of HarvestPlus Nigeria, which aims to drive the production, consumption, and marketing of nutritious food in Nigeria. 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