Title
HarvestPlus
Description
CIP is a collaborator with HarvestPlus, an international, interdisciplinary research program that seeks to reduce micronutrient malnutrition by harnessing the powers of agriculture and nutrition research to breed nutrient dense staple foods.
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CGIAR center
CIP
Category
Initiatives and Networks
Keywords
micronutrient
malnutrition
nutrition
diet
Contact
Gordon Prain
E-mail
g.prain@cgiar.org
Title
Urban Harvest
Description
CIP is the convener of the CGIAR initiative to direct and coordinate the collective knowledge and technologies of the CGIAR Centers towards strengthening urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA). UPA is a priority area of health concern due to the concentration of biological and chemical contaminants in urban and peri-urban areas which can get into the food system through agriculture. At the same time, UPA offers the potential of enhancing the health status of urban families with limited access to micro-nutrients
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CGIAR center
CIP
Category
Initiatives and Networks
Keywords
urban
peri-urban
human health
nutrition
diet
malnutrition
undernutrition
contaminant
food system
Contact
Gordon Prain
E-mail
g.prain@cgiar.org
Title
Vitamin A for Africa (VITAA)
Description
The VITAA initiative brought 40 partner agencies from the health, nutrition and agricultural sectors together to extend the impact of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes in seven partner countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, Mozambique and Uganda.
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CGIAR center
CIP
Category
Initiatives and Networks
Keywords
vitamin A
micronutrient
malnutrition
sweet potato
nutrition
Countries
Ethiopia
Kenya
South Africa
Tanzania
Ghana
Mozambique
Uganda
Contact
Gordon Prain
E-mail
g.prain@cgiar.org
Title
Agriculture and Human Health Division
Description
CIP has an institutionalized research program dedicated to agriculture and human health whose principal activities are to analyze linkages among production, ecosystems, and human health, enhance human health benefits from agricultural production, and mitigate human health risks from agricultural production.
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CGIAR center
CIP
Category
Research Program
Keywords
ecosystem
diet
nutrition
malnutrition
pesticide
Contact
Gordon Prain
E-mail
g.prain@cgiar.org
Title
Mitigating Human Health Risks
Description
Within CIP's Agriculture and Health Research Division, this program focuses on reducing the risks to human health caused by contaminants such as pesticides or contaminated irrigation water. As part of this program, the Tradeoff Analysis Model was developed to examine the agricultural impacts of pesticide use as compared with the human and environmental costs. Collaboration with the Crop Improvement Division on ways to reduce pesticide use is ongoing.
CGIAR center
CIP
Category
Research Program
Keywords
comtamination
pesticide
irrigation
water
Contact
Gordon Prain
E-mail
g.prain@cgiar.org
Title
Enhancing Human Health Benefits
Description
Within CIP's Agriculture and Health Research Division, this program focuses on increasing the nutritional benefits of potatoes and sweet potatoes and related issues of food safety. The nutritional impact of high beta-carotene sweet potatoes has been of particular interest. More recently, research has focused on the development of potatoes with higher levels of iron and vitamin C.
CGIAR center
CIP
Category
Research Program
Keywords
nutrtition
potato
sweet potato
food safety
diet
iron
vitamin C
malnutrition
Contact
Gordon Prain
E-mail
g.prain@cgiar.org