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Building Nutritious Food Baskets: Training of Trainers (ToT) Biofortification Participant’s Guide

Author: Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) Contributors: Joyce Maru September 13, 2018

Upon completing this module, participants should be able to: • Explain how biofortification can address micronutrient malnutrition among vulnerable populations • Compare biofortification to other common interventions for micronutrient malnutrition • Summarize the process that breeders follow to produce biofortified varieties of staple crops • Outline strategies for promoting biofortified …
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Building Nutritious Food Baskets: Training of Trainers (ToT) High-Iron Beans Participants Guide

Author: Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) Contributors: Joyce Maru September 13, 2018

In developing this module Building Nutritious Food Baskets Project (BNFB) aims to ensure that participants can be able to: Engage in discussions of micronutrient malnutrition with target groups, specifically about anemia/iron deficiency • Describe how biofortified high-iron beans (HIB) can address iron deficiency among vulnerable populations • Summarize how breeders …
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Building Nutritious Food Baskets: Training of Trainers (ToT) Provitamin A Maize Facilitator’s Guide

Author: Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) Contributors: Joyce Maru August 09, 2018

This module is designed to potentially serve a wide variety of audiences (nutritionists and agronomists, policymakers, extension workers, community development workers, seed system specialists, farmers etc.). Not all the materials will be relevant to all audiences, but facilitators can adapt the content to their audience and facilitation best practices. To …
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Reaching Agents of Change Project: Successes, lessons and recommendations Ex-post evaluation report

Author: Building Nutritious Food Baskets Contributors: Joyce Maru May 07, 2018

The ex-post evaluation assessed the experiences, achievements and lessons from the Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) project in its three primary countries of operation, namely Mozambique, Tanzania and Nigeria. RAC was a collaborative project implemented between April 2011 and August 2015, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. …
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Advocacy Strategy for Scaling Up Biofortified Crops for Nutrition Security in Tanzania 2016-2018

Author: Building Nutritious Food Baskets Contributors: Joyce Maru December 06, 2017

As part of BNFB’s implementation, a situation analysis was conducted to establish the baseline status of the key thematic components of the project. It also identified (1) the key actors, (2) the needs of the communities, (3) the bottlenecks to be addressed in order to unlock the value chains of …
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BNFB Nigeria Advocacy Strategy

Author: Building Nutritious Food Baskets Contributors: Joyce Maru December 06, 2017

This strategy aims to influence the adoption of food-based approaches to address micronutrient deficiency in Nigeria through advocating for increased investments in biofortification and enhancement of institutional and community capacities to produce and consume biofortified crops. It focuses on six broad aims:  Increase awareness on the existence and nutritional …
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