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The role of mycotoxin contamination in nutrition: The aflatoxin story
| Content Provider | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) |
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| Author | Ayalew, Amare Hoffmann, Vivian Lindahl, Johanna Ezekiel, Chibundu N. |
| Organization | IFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division |
| Organization | IFPRI - West and Central Africa Office |
| Organization | IFPRI - Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) |
| Organization | IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division |
| Organization | IFPRI - East and Central Asia Office |
| Description | Over the past decade, there has been increasing recognition that the quantity of food alone guarantees neither food security nor adequate nutrition as measured by metrics such as hunger, malnutrition, and stunting. Increasingly, policy and decision makers understand the need to include nutritional aspects into improvements of food systems. However, not as fully recognized is that unsafe, contaminated foods thwart these efforts and maintain an unacceptable status quo in food insecurity, poverty, and a range of health-related problems. All of this makes sustainable development more challenging. In 2010, foodborne hazards caused 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths across the world, with 40 percent of this disease burden occurring among children under five years of age (Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition 2016). Yet food safety has become an important precondition for access to global food markets and, increasingly, for high-value domestic markets in developing countries. |
| Sponsorship | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation United States Agency for International Development |
| Related Links | https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/cfd01308-40c9-4047-af93-e2965ccc740b |
| File Format | |
| DOI | 10.2499/9780896295933_08 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| Publisher Date | 2016-10-17 |
| Publisher Place | Washington, DC |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 |
| Subject Keyword | Income Gender Biofortification Mycotoxins Economic Growth Undernutrition Economic Development Nutrition Policies Agricultural Growth Agricultural Policies Indicators Capacity Development Evaluation Malnutrition Nutrition Aflatoxins Children Agricultural Development Food Consumption Poverty Diet Women Food Safety |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
| Subject | Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Plant Science |
