Unit
Embrapa Beef Cattle
Biofortified Foods: paving the way to bring more health to Brazilian people's tables
Biofortified Foods: paving the way to bring more health to Brazilian people's tables
Photo: RIBEIRO, Maria Eugênia
Food education represents a factor of great importance to change malnutrition conditions, especially with regard to children, for a better quality of life based on the supply of accessible, low-cost foods with higher nutritional value. In view of such need, family farming represents a great potential to revert the malnutrition scenario, and the Food Biofortification project, led by Embrapa Food Agroindustry, is an alternative to offer technologies with nutritional added value aimed at family farming. The project has already rendered good results; however, under the scope of this project, it is important to establish a more effective process to increase access to the varieties and the consumption of biofortified products that Embrapa has already made available: rice, beans, cowpeas, cassava, maize and sweet potato, and to consolidate their impacts, especially in the economic and social dimensions. Mid-North
Ecosystem: Semi-mixed and seasonal forests, Caatinga Region and Mixed forests, Cerrados Region, Ecological Transition
Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jun 22 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 Conclusion date: Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015
Head Unit: Embrapa Mid-North
Project leader: Marcos Jacob de Oliveira Almeida
Contact: marcos.almeida@embrapa.br
Keywords: Alimentos biofortificados, Alimentos, Agricultura familiar