Current Status and Potential of Biofortification to Enhance Crop Nutritional Quality: An Overview
Sustainability
; 14(6):3301, 2022.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1765871
ABSTRACT
Around 2 billion people are suffering from chronic malnutrition or “hidden hunger”, which is the result of many diseases and disorders, including cognitive degeneration, stunting growth, and mortality. Thus, biofortification of staple food crops enriched with micronutrients is a more sustainable option for providing nutritional supplements and managing malnutrition in a society. Since 2001, when the concept of biofortification came to light, different research activities have been carried out, like the development of target populations, breeding or genetic engineering, and the release of biofortified cultivars, in addition to conducting nutritional efficacy trials and delivery plan development. Although, being a cost-effective intervention, it still faces many challenges, like easy accessibility of biofortified cultivars, stakeholders’ acceptance, and the availability of biofortified germplasm in the public domain, which varies from region to region. Hence, this review is focused on the recent potential, efforts made to crop biofortification, impacts analysis on human health, cost-effectiveness, and future perspectives to further strengthen biofortification programs. Through regular interventions of sustainable techniques and methodologies, biofortification holds huge potential to solve the malnutrition problem through regular interventions of nutrient-enriched staple food options for billions of people globally.
Environmental Studies; biofortification; cost-effectiveness; COVID-19; health effects; malnutrition; Food supply; Dietary supplements; Population; Agricultural production; Micronutrients; Plant breeding; Food security; Nutrition research; Hunger; Degeneration; Crops; Genetic engineering; Diet; Developing countries--LDCs; Cultivars; Climate change; Agricultural economics; Food; Iodine; Germplasm; Cost analysis; Population genetics; Genetically altered foods; Health care; Pandemics; Public health; Public domain; Supply chains; Cognitive ability; Coronaviruses; Nutritional status; South Asia
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ProQuest Central
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English
Journal:
Sustainability
Year:
2022
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Article
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