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ICARDA/CGIAR Scientists win the UN s International Technology Innovation Competition
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Gender discrimination threatens crop yield among smallholder farmers in Africa, researchers say
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The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have been working with partners including farmers, funders Biovision Foundation Switzerland and the Agriculture for Nutrition and health CGIAR Research Program A4NH, as well as the Kenyan Ministry of Health and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperatives, to tackle this challenge.
African leafy vegetables like Amaranth, can contain 200 times more vitamin A and 10 times the iron of a similarly sized portion of cabbage, for example. In partnership with Vihiga County Department of Health, through trainings, demonstration plots, seed banks and use of community health volunteers to carry out door-to-door nutrition training, the project has reached more than 20,000 women between the age of 15 and 49 years, in ten sub-locations in the county over four years.
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