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

联合国宣布2016年至2025年为消除全球所有形式营养不良的行动十年；确保所有人都能获得更健康、更可持续的饮食，无论他们身在何处，无论他们是谁。这份简报还涵盖了大多数社会目前面临的营养不良的双重负担，其特点是营养不良与超重、肥胖或与饮食有关的非传染性疾病共存。拟议的“营养食品”项目将通过确定番茄、苋菜、木薯和山药等新的营养强化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食品系统将使现有的食品篮子多样化，并提供更高的质量。该项目将利用全球资源和专业知识，利用独特的种质。所开发的工具和资源在性质上是通用的，虽然我们的重点将是西非的尼日利亚和贝宁，但调查结果可以在全球其他南沙群岛国家和中低收入国家翻译。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(VAD)的食品。VAD在低收入国家普遍存在，并在撒哈拉以南非洲(SSA)流行，那里83%的2至5岁儿童出现VAD。由于营养不良，每年有50万人失明，125万人死亡。为此，NutriFood将专注于高维生素A原水果和蔬菜以及高卡路里主食作物木薯和山药，这些作物通过生物强化原维生素A和其他营养物质进行生物强化，所使用的加工方法将有可能创造出可储存的产品，改善营养吸收。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，学校和家庭将成为营养食品的目标。在贝宁和尼日利亚，将在学校开展营养干预。潜在地，这些研究可能有助于缓解VAD和改善婴儿的认知发展。将使用现代通信技术和方法来宣传健康饮食的优势，以及如何以具有成本效益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行为者参加。在科学家、非政府组织代表、政策制定者、父母(母亲)和民间组织的参与下，将尝试并推广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.