The production and promotion of nutrient rich foodstuffs to address the double burden of malnutrition.

联合国已宣布2016年至2025年为在全球消除一切形式营养不良的行动十年；确保所有人，无论身在何处，无论何人，都能获得更健康和更可持续的饮食。本简介还包括大多数社会目前面临的营养不良双重负担，其特点是营养不足与超重、肥胖或与饮食有关的非传染性疾病共存。拟议的“营养食品”项目将通过鉴定新的营养增强的番茄、苋菜、木薯和山药品种来改善西非饮食的营养质量；将这些水果和蔬菜及其衍生产品纳入粮食系统将使现有食品篮子多样化，并提高质量。该项目将利用全球资源和专门知识，利用独特的种质资源。开发的工具和资源本质上是通用的，尽管我们的重点是西非的尼日利亚和贝宁，但研究结果可以转化为全球其他SSA国家和中低收入国家。水果和蔬菜富含维生素A原。我们的关键绩效指标之一将是提供有可能减少维生素A缺乏症（VAD）的食品。VAD在低收入国家普遍存在，在撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）流行，其中83%的2至5岁儿童患有VAD。由于这种营养不良，每年有50万失明病例和125万人死亡。为此，NUTRIFOOD将专注于富含维生素A原的水果和蔬菜，以及富含维生素A原和其他营养素的高热量主食作物木薯和山药。所采用的加工方法将有可能创造出具有改善营养吸收的可储存产品。由于维生素A对生命最初1000天的健康和儿童的发育至关重要，因此学校和家庭将成为NUTRIFOOD的目标。在贝宁和尼日利亚，将在学校开展营养干预。这些研究可能有助于减轻VAD并改善婴儿的认知发育。将利用现代通信技术和方法宣传健康饮食的优点以及如何以成本效益高的方式产生健康饮食。该联盟将举办一系列研讨会，邀请整个供应链的多方参与者参加。在科学家、非政府组织代表、决策者、父母（母亲）和民间组织参与的情况下，将尝试和促进实施健康饮食的共同设计方法。

The United Nations have declared 2016 to 2025 as the decade of action to eradicate all forms of malnutrition worldwide; ensuring access to healthier and more sustainable diets for all, regardless of location and whoever they are. This brief also encompasses the double burden of malnutrition now facing most societies and characterised by the coexistence of undernutrition along with overweight, obesity or diet-related noncommunicable disease (NCDs). The proposed project "NUTRIFOOD" will improve the nutritional quality of diets in West Africa by identifying new nutritionally enhanced varieties of tomato, amaranth, cassava and yam; incorporating these fruits and vegetables and their derived products into the food systems will diversify the existing food basket and provide improved quality. The project will draw upon global resources and expertise, utilising unique germplasm. The tools and resources developed are generic in nature and although our focus will be Nigeria and Benin in West Africa the findings can be translated across other SSA countries and Low Medium Income countries globally. Fruit and vegetables are rich in provitamin A. One of our key performance indicators will be the provision of foodstuffs with the potential to reduce Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD). VAD is widespread in low-income countries and prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where 83% of children aged 2 to 5 years exhibit VAD. As a result of this malnutrition, 500,000 cases of blindness and 1.25 million deaths occur annually. With this aim, NUTRIFOOD will focus on high provitamin A fruits and vegetables as well as the high caloric staple crops cassava and yam biofortified with provitamin A and other nutrients The processing approaches used will potentially create storable products with improved nutrient uptake. As vitamin A is essential for well-being in the first 1000 days of life and the development of children, schools and households will be target in NUTRIFOOD. In Benin and Nigeria nutritional interventions in schools will be carried out. Potentially, these studies could contribute to the alleviation of VAD and improved cognitive development in infants. Modern communication technologies and approaches will be used to communicate the advantages of healthy diets and how to generate healthy diets in a cost-effective manner. The consortium will carried out a series of workshops to which multi-actors across the supply chain will be invited. With, scientists, NGO representatives, policy makers, parents (mothers) and civil organisations involved co-design approaches to the implementation of healthy diets will be attempted and promoted.