IMPROVING NUTRITION IN FOOD SYSTEMS

IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

World Bank June 12th, 2013

Biofortification: Breeding Crops for Better

Nutrition

Public, private partnership:

A case study for product development

Fabiana de Moura HarvestPlus Nutritionist Researcher

Marilia Regini Nutti HarvestPlus Coordinator Latin America and Caribbean

Coordinator of Brazilian Biofortification Network-BioFORT.

Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation - EMBRAPA Brazil.

CGIAR Research Centers

CIAT Tropical agriculture Cali, Colombia

CIMMYT Maize and wheat Mexico City, Mexico

IFPRI Food policy Washington, D.C., USA

CIP Roots and tubers Lima, Peru

IITA Tropical agriculture Ibadan, Nigeria

IPGRI Agricultural biodiversity Rome, Italy

ICARDA Agriculture in the dry areas Aleppo, Syria

IWMI Water resources Colombo, Sri Lanka

ICRAF Agroforestry

and ILRI Livestock Nairobi,Kenya

CIFOR Forestry Bogor, Indonesia

IRRI Rice Los Baños, Philippines

ICRISAT Semi-arid tropical agriculture Patancheru, India

ICLARM Fisheries Penang, Malaysia

WARDA Rice in West Africa Benin

AgroSalud Project

• Development, evaluation, diffusion , transfer and promotion of

biofortified crops. • Complementary strategy to other efforts in other to increase

the nutritional intake and nutrition food security. • Geographical focus in Latin America and the Caribbean • Financed by CIDA (Canada), 2005-09 • Integrated to HarvestPlus

CIAT (Colombia)

EMBRAPA (Brasil)

BioFORT

Was born the

With the activities starting in 2009 , this project complements the activiites alrealy being developed in HarvestPlus e AgroSalud, helping to strengh the Brazilian Biofortification Network , being sponsored by Fundo de Pesquisa Embrapa / Monsanto ( Embrapa and Monsanto Research Fund) .

To develop biofortified crops and evaluate its acceptability by target group.

To breed for high pro - vitamin A varieties of pumpkin, sweet potato, cassava and maize.

To breed for high Fe and Zn contents cultivars/ varieties of rice, beans, cowpea beans , maize and wheat.

To develop food products and packing that are in accordance with the target group eating and dietary habits.

To evaluate the potential of the utilization of the biofortified food in the school lunch program of the Maranhão, Sergipe and Minas Gerais States ;

To develop communication , diffusion and technology transfer actions in order to guarantee visibility for the project among the stake holders

BioFORT Project Objectives

Approaches to fighting micronutrient

malnutrition

BIOFORTICATION

The food basket approach for LAC

• In LAC several people are reached via supplementation and fortification;

• We want to reach rural poor with biofortified versions of these crops, since rural poor may not have access to supplements and fortified food;

• Processed products made of these crops that could claim that they are source of Fe, Zn or provitamin A, according to the labeling guidelines of the target countries.

• Pilot studies (2008 -2011) in 4 states: Maranhao, Sergipe, Minas Geraes and Rio de Janeiro

• Task I - Nutrition ( 2 activities)

• 1: baseline on health and nutrition status of target population, identification of food habits and consumption.

• 2: acceptability test of the 6 crops in the school lunch program.

• Task II - Production

• Validation of the cultivars and production of the food ( grains and tubers ) at the municipalities.

• Release of 10 cultivars with high Fe, Zn and Beta Carotene that are being disseminated.

Biofortification Projects in Brazil: BioFORT, HarvestPlus and AgroSalud, coordinated in Brazil by Embrapa, since 2003. It aims to develop micronutrient dense staple crops, to achieve provitamin A, iron, and zinc concentrations that can have measurable effects on nutritional status.

Cultivars released and recommended in Brazil

• Beans – 3 cultivars

• Cowpea – 3 cultivars

• Cassava – 3 cultivars

• Sweet-potato – 1 cultivar

• Maize – 1 cultivar

Product Development

Sweet Potato

OFSP bread OFSP flour

OFSP pasta OFSP gnocchi

OFSP cookies OFSP chips

Cassava/wheat Snack

Cassava Bread

Cassava Pallet Cassava Flour

Partnership between Embrapa Food Technology

and Clayuca at AgroSalud project

Cassava Chips Cassava Fried

Development of cassava (Manihot esculenta, Crantz) flour products: an

application for biofortified cropsCassava Partnership First Scientific Meeting

GCP – I. Cassava: Meeting the Challenges of the New Millennium. 21 -25, July.

2008. Ghent, Belgium.

Product Development

Cassava

Brown Rice + Maize (30%)

Brown Rice (100%)

Brown Rice + Milled Rice + Maize

(55:30:15)

Noodles

MATERIAL ID GENEALOGIA ORIGEN

WHITE MAIZE SA1614-18 S03TLWQAB05 PM06B-062-5

A collaboration agreement between

Company Pampa Ltda e a CLAYUCA

was initiated in 2008.

Product developed (Jan-09)

Company Pampa Ltda – Cali, Colombia

QPM Maize

Cleaning (Zaranda – 1800 rpm)

De-germination (200 kg/tanda – 17 min)

Salvado = 467 kg (37%)

Classification (300 kg/h)

Packing

1276 kg

Maíz venteado = 1266 kg

Impurezas = 3 kg (0,2%)

Maíz trillado = 789 kg

Maíz para cuchuco = 82 kg (6%)

De-germinated maize for mazamorra 723 kg (57%)

3286 bolsas x 220 g

QPM maize kernel Dried in silos

Mechanical shelling “pergamino” or shelled maize

De-germination Clasificación

Bran (pericarpio + germen) de-germed corn

Automatic packing supervision

manual packing Producto: Mazamorra “El Choclo”

New packing and labeling of the product

* Según Resolución 288 de 2008, Ministerio de la Protección Social, República de Colombia

Información Nutricional* Tamaño por porción 50 g

Contiene 5 porciones

Cantidad por porción

Calorías 170

Valor Diario*

Sodio 8 mg 0%

Carbohidrato Total 40 g 13%

Fibra dietaria 2 g 8%

Azúcares 8 g

Proteína 3 g 6%

Hierro 20% No es fuente significativa de Grasa Total, Grasa Saturada, Grasa Trans, Colesterol, Vitamina A, Vitamina C y Calcio.

* Los porcentajes de Valores Diarios están basados en una dieta de 2000 calorías. Sus valores diarios pueden ser mayores o menores dependiendo de sus necesidades calóricas.

Product marketing – Colombia

Biofortified Cultivar Development

Developing Farmers

Quality, safety and innovation management along the

agri-food chain and socio-economic impact

Technology transformation and application

Nutrition Valorization

Implementation

Brazil: In Partnership with Embrapa

Pepsico Bridges Agriculture & Nutrition

Cassava

Strategic Partnership

Sweet Potato

Corn

Wheat

A Multi-stakeholder Approach To Deliver Innovative Solutions: The Brazilian Case

+

Strategic partnership

Signed MOU/ Agreement in 2011 in order to

conduct the first scale tests

+ 70 % maize

30 % yellow

cassava

BRS Jari

100 % yellow

cassava BRS

Jari

Plans for the future in LAC

HarvestPlus Planning Meeting

Cali, Colombia, Feb 25 – 28, 2013

Country priority setting using a Biofortification Priority Index (BPI) developed by HarvestPlus team.

Participants: HarvestPlus breeders, nutritionists, economists

How are countries prioritized?

To be a H+ priority, a country must: 1. Produce the crop - a significant proportion of production

must be used for domestic consumption;

2. Consume much of the crop on a per-capita basis; and

3. Have a high level of micronutrient deficiency (vitamin A, Iron or zinc).

Countries Rice (zinc)

Beans (zinc-iron)

Maize (zinc)

Maize (Vit A)

Cassava (Vit A)

Sweet Pot (Vit A)

1. Nicaragua (1) x x x

2. Guatemala – Mex. (South) (1)

`x x

3. Honduras >more inform

x

4. Bolivia ?? x x x??

Potential country/crop/micronutrient

combinations for investment

Countries Rice (zinc)

Beans (zinc-iron)

Maize (zinc)

Maize (Vit A)

Cassava (Vit A)

Sweet Pot (Vit A)

A . Panama X (Rural) X (indigenous)

x X(indigen.)

B. Colombia X (North Coast)

X (North Coast)

x x x

Countries that requested technical

assistance in all topics

Potential countries...

According to BPI, these countries could be candidates for a H+ program;

Countries Rice (zinc)

Beans (zinc-iron)

Maize (zinc)

Maize (Vit A)

Cassava (Vit A)

Sweet Pot (Vit A)

Jamaica (??) x

Cuba (??) x X spill over x

Haiti

Considering the country’s situation, a special project would be needed for Haiti.

Countries Rice (zinc)

Beans (zinc-iron)

Maize (zinc)

Maize (Vit A)

Cassava (Vit A)

Sweet Pot (Vit A)

Haiti x x x x x x

Countries Rice (zinc)

Beans (zinc-iron)

Maize (zinc)

Maize (Vit A)

Cassava (Vit A)

Sweet Pot (Vit A)

El Salvador x

Peru (Amazonia) X

Indirect benefiting countries

Some potential countries that are not targets (low BPI), but could be beneficiaries of the HarvestPlus technologies (spillovers).

5 Takeover messages

1) Biofortification is a strategy for combatting micronutrient deficiency

in LAC, especially in rural areas

2) Due to the diverse diets in LAC we are advocating "food basket"

approach

3) We have been functioning in LAC for a while, with great successes

in breeding and also in raising awareness and building

partnerships in research in the public and private sectors

4) Special emphasis to the development of healthy processed

products

5) In phase III of Harvestplus (2014-2018) we want to increase our

investments in LAC

The results presented here are a consequence of a team work strategy which integrated more than 200 people in different regions of Brazil and LAC, working tightly in order to reach the HarvestPlus , A4NH and BioFORT expected deliverables. We wish to express our gratitude to Embrapa, the HarvestPlus and A4NH programs for all the support without which this work could not be carried out.

Thank you ... Obrigada!

marilia.nutti@embrapa.br or m.nutti@cgiar.org