Agro-Salud, “a multi-partner ‘biofortification’ program,” has announced on the CIAT blog that it is releasing new varieties of rice, maize and beans to poor communities in Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras and Nicaragua. The new crops are described as “nutritionally enhanced” and also “out-perform traditional crops in terms of disease resistance and yields”.
The new varieties add to more than 40 nutritionally-improved crops that Agro Salud and its partners have released across the region since 2007.
I wonder if they have had any impact on nutrition?