Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
100% of the Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) for vitamin A can provide biofortified orange sweet potato (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
60% higher than control communities was the orange sweet potato adoption rate in the Uganda and Mozambique intervention (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
24,000 households were reached by the orange sweet potato intervention in Uganda and Mozambique from 2006 to 2009 (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
4.5 months of consuming iron biofortified beans showed significant increase in hemoglobin and total body iron in iron-depleted university women in Rwanda (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
15-20 US dollars per Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY) saved costs orange sweet potato biofortification in Uganda (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
10% of national bean production represent iron beans in Rwanda, only five years after their first release (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
75% of all biofortified harvested roots were consumed on-farm in 2015, according to HarvestPlus estimates (Bouis & Saltzman, 2017).
