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Novel staple food-based strategies to improve micronutrient status for better health and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Start date:2008-06-01
End date:2013-05-31
Project Acronym:INSTAPA
Project status:Execution
Coordinator
| Organization name:WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Jos |
Costerweg 50 9101 WAGENINGEN NEDERLAND Region:NOORD-NEDERLAND FRIESLAND Noord-Friesland |
| Tel:+31-317485313 | |
| Fax:+31-317484132 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.wageningenuniversiteit.nl/uk/ | Organization Type:Education |
Description
Objective:
Malnutrition, and especially deficiencies of micronutrients like iron, zinc and vitamin A, undermine the progress towards most of the Millennium Development Goals. In view of the serious coverage, compliance and safety concerns of supplementation, this project aims to identify novel staple food-based approaches to improve micronutrient malnutrition for better health and development of women and children in sub-Saharan Africa. It will focus on the improvement of millet-, sorghum-, maize-, and cassava based (complementary) foods.
The genetic potential of staple foods for increasing the micronutrient and antinutrient content will be evaluated and the determinants of success and failure of introducing biofortified staple foods in local farming systems will be assessed. The efficacy of biofortified staple foods with adequate levels of provitamin A will be determined. Concerning fortification, the project will develop and test new approaches to optimise iron and zinc fortification of staple food-based foods. The project will develop improved (traditional) processing methods of the staple foods concerned to enhance micronutrient uptake and bioavailability. The developed approaches in the area of biofortification, fortification and processing will be compared on efficacy of improving iron and zinc intake and status.
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General information:
Project Details
Start date:2008-06-01
End date:2013-05-31
Duration:60 months
Project Reference:211484
Project cost:7731604 EURO
Project Funding:5900284 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP7-KBBE
Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Optical technologies for monitoring the human nutrition status and the onset of nutrition-related health problems
Contract type:Collaborative project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries (SICA)
URL:http://www.instapa.org
Subject index:Policies, Food, Biotechnology, Scientific Research, Life Sciences, Coordination, Cooperation, Medicine, Health
Other Indexes:Africa,safety,food processing,Micronutrients,staple food,(bio)fortification,cognitive development
Results for this Project
| Periodic Report Summary - INSTAPA (Novel staple food-based strategies to improve micronutrient status for better health and development in sub-Saharan Africa) | 18/12/2010 |
Documents for this Project
| Periodic Report - INSTAPA (Novel staple food-based strategies to improve micronutrient status for better health and development in sub-Saharan Africa) | 20/12/2010 |
Other participants
| Organization name:LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Penny |
KEPPEL STREET LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON |
| Tel:+44-2079272678 | |
| Fax:+44-2075805636 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL: | Organization Type:Education,Other |
| Organization name:UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Jane Dene |
University Road, Chiltern Hills WESTVILLE SOUTH AFRICA Region: |
| Tel:+27-312604499 | |
| Fax:+27-312604211 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL: | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Richard Frederick |
Raemistrasse 101 ZUERICH SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:ZÜRICH |
| Tel:+41-44-6238420 | |
| Fax:+41-44-6321470 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.ethz.ch | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE - IFPRI | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Howarth |
2033 K Street, NW WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES Region: |
| Tel:+20-28625600 | |
| Fax:+20-24674439 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.ifpri.org | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNOLOGIQUE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Alhadi |
B P 7047 7047 OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO Region: |
| Tel:+226-50357029 | |
| Fax:+226-50357029 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.cnrst.bf | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:UNIVERSITE D ABOMEY CALAVI UAC | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Romain Anselme Marc |
526 ABOMEY CALAVI BENIN Region: |
| Tel:+229-90022528 | |
| Fax:+229-21361642 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.bj.refer.org | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:George A.o. |
University Way 30197 NAIROBI KENYA Region: |
| Tel:+254-2031826228241/42 | |
| Fax:+254-20212604/216030 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.uonbi.ac.ke | Organization Type: |
| Organization name:INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Claire |
rue La Fayette 213 PARIS FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Paris |
| Tel:+33-467416295 | |
| Fax: | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL: | Organization Type:Research,Other |
| Organization name:INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Shalewa |
IDI-OSE OYO ROAD PMB5320 IBADAN NIGERIA Region: |
| Tel:+234-22412626 | |
| Fax:+234-22412221 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.iita.org | Organization Type: |
Record control number:87952
