Tag Archives: Vitamin A

  Multi-sectoral programs that involve stakeholders in agriculture, nutrition and health care are essential for responding to nutrition problems such as vitamin A deficiency among pregnant and lactating women and their infants in many poor areas of lower income countries. Yet planning such multi-sectoral programs and designing appropriate evaluations, to respond to different …

This brief describes a project that took place in 4 countries between 2012 – 2015 and worked with 15 radio stations, NGOs, nutrition specialists and national research specialists to develop radio programs focused on OFSP. The programs covered three main topic; production, consumption and nutritional knowledge. The project took place …

La PDCO a eu un impact positif dans de nombreuses communautés à travers l’Afrique et est une source salutaire de vitamine A alimentaire particulièrement appréciée des enfants. Le projet Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) fait campagne pour l’augmentation des investissements en faveur des approches alimentaires fondées sur la patate douce à …

Background: White maize, which is widely used for complementary feeding and is seldom fortified at the household level, may be associated with the high prevalence of vitamin A deficiency among infants in low-income countries. Objective: The nutrient composition of complementary foods based on orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) and cream-fleshed sweet …

Many efforts have been recently made in Mozambique to disseminate orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP), an efficacious and effective source of pro-vitamin A. It has been demonstrated that the consumption of OFSP during the harvesting period can reduce vitamin A deficiency (VAD) by 15% when it is introduced alongside an effort to …

This is a poster of a child under the age of 5 enjoying orange-fleshed sweet potato.

Cohort study of Vitamin A (COVA) is an initiative established to assess differences between intervention and control in communities. In this presentation some preliminary cohort study of Vitamin A results are reported. Additionally, food consumption study to assess the intervention impact is reported along other multiple ongoing studies.

Scaling up Sweetpotato through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) is a partnership between the International Potato Center (CIP), National Research Institutes (NRI) and nutrition extension services, NGOs and commercial sectors. SUSTAIN was borne of the need for agricultural development and better nutrition worldwide via investing in Vitamin A rich Orange fleshed sweetpotato …