🌱Feb. Update: Nigeria and Rwanda Success Stories, Tech and Biofortification - mailchi.mp/cgiar/february
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Better Crops mean better nutrition. We are making staple foods more nutritious to reduce hunger. High iron beans were released in Rwanda in June,2012.
Kigali,RwandaJoined May 2017
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What are we up to? Our Feb. News and Insights update includes: biofortified food products in Nigeria, harnessing tech solutions, reaching Zambian refugees, expanding the nutrition evidence base on iron beans, and more. Subscribe and stay informed: bit.ly/2Tc2dKj
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How does use biofortification to change lives beyond health? We help catalyze and link markets, and provide technical support and guidance to entrepreneurs and small businesses. Watch how livelihoods in Nigeria are impacted:
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We love to see the reach of biofortified crops - and their health benefits - spreading through the work of partners like , who are distributing iron and zinc rich biofortified beans in Nicaragua bit.ly/2SBU56U
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We've been busy in the past couple of months and here is what we were cooking for you, a new video! Biofortified iron beans are definitely a nutrition success story in this country! thanks to the commitment and the work of many of our partners.
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And iron beans have already reached millions of Rwandan farmers and consumers! did you know 20% of the bean total production was iron beans?
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Did you know the latest study on the benefits of biofortified iron beans is the first piece of research to show that a solely food-based nutrition intervention produced an improvement in subjects’ “work efficiency”?
Learn more: bit.ly/39l3yoC
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Rwandan farmers and consumers relate well when we talk about iron-biofortified beans impact in Rwanda. Millions are being reached with these beans and change is real as farmers talk in our new video!
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Jaqueline Mushimiyimana: Rwandan farmer and mother who grows iron-bifortified beans and is in our new video about how these beans are reaching millions in Rwanda. "I saw change in my child, who became healthier..." bit.ly/2Sx5i7n
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Yes, 20 percent of all beans produced in Rwanda were iron-biofortified and more than 1.8 million people in Rwanda are estimated to be consuming them! Go read the full #Successtory 👇#makingimpact #endhiddenhunger
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Rwanda embraced biofortification in 2010, becoming one of the first countries on the continent to do so. Over the last years, more than 5,000 metric tons of high iron bean seed was produced and disseminated in Rwanda. Read the full story!👉newtimes.co.rw/news/featured-
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The same farming households tell an amazing full iron-biofortified beans success story! #empoweredfarmers #ironbeanstory #endhiddenhunger
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Quality #nutrition is fundamental to #HumanRights. At the end of 2018, over 420,000 farming households in #Rwanda were growing iron-biofortified beans with 1.8+ million people consuming them. Read the impact and full story by @NewTimesRwanda: bit.ly/32DG1LT
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Biofortified beans with iron in Rwanda,a nutrition success story indeed👉harvestplus.org/rwandasuccess
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We are happy to see biofortified iron beans contributing to farmers' food security especially rural women in Rwanda! Iron beans efficacy trial linked their consumption to improved iron status and cognitive capacity in women #EndHiddenHunger
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"So tasty you'll be missing out if you don't eat them." Beans biofortified with iron are disease-tolerant, address anemia and inspire Rwanda's top musicians to jam! Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=fo6449 #FunFactFriday
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Truly this is a wonder ... building trust through working together in agriculture. We have much to learn about restorative justice using the tools in our hands ... food to eat.
#FoodPrize19 #agriculture
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“For a community to be free of violence, trust must be built again” comments Dr. James Smith, CEO of Aegis Trust.
After the genocide in Rwanda, trust was rebuilt not by asking for forgiveness, but by working together in agriculture as restorative justice. #FoodPrize19
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And working together in agriculture has led #biofortification making impact on millions of Rwandan small hold bean farmers! Many thanks and for the valuable support and team work to reduce #IronDeficiency through the adoption of high iron beans.
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“For a community to be free of violence, trust must be built again” comments Dr. James Smith, CEO of Aegis Trust.
After the genocide in Rwanda, trust was rebuilt not by asking for forgiveness, but by working together in agriculture as restorative justice. #FoodPrize19
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Iron beans have already made a positive impact on the lives of millions of women, children and smallholder bean farmers in Rwanda–contributing to national development through improved nutrition and increased household incomes! #EndHiddenHunger
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On #WorldFoodDay, we reflect on current global challenges and how they are deeply intertwined. Biofortification is one example of agriculture and nutrition working together to improve quality of life and help reach #SDGs. #WednesdayWisdom #KnowYourNutrition
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Live from #Iowa, it’s #FoodPrize19 with ! Thank you to all of our partners for supporting biofortification to reduce #hiddenhunger. #WorldFoodDay
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As we celebrate #WorldFoodDay, we cannot talk about food without farmers and only farmers could understand the significant impact of producing and consuming high-iron beans on families' livelihood. we thank farmers for producing nutritious beans which end up on our plates!
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Farmers in #Rwanda never forget how high iron beans not only improved their health and nutrition but also their wealth through financial returns! #KnowYourNutrition #EndHiddenHunger
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Zero hunger is #2 on #GlobalGoals of the #2030Agenda. Biofortification of staple foods have been very effective in reducing micronutrient deficiency. This week's #KnowYourNutrition illustrates the nutritional impact of iron-fortified beans in Rwanda.
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The common bean is long overdue for its celebration. It is already changing lives, as new varieties and markets spread through Rwanda. Beans are food, health, iron for their growing children, a rich harvest for a rich future. Find out more:
stories.croptrust.org/story/cest-la-
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"People now know all the benefits from high iron beans, I sell them fast. From that business,I expended land from 5 to 15 hectares"- Gaspard is one of many both seed multipliers and agro-dealers, who helped other farmers access biofortified iron beans #empower #endhiddenhunger
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At #AGRF2019, DG of Ruben Echeverria, finds hope in inspiring nutrition solutions now possible.
"The has been working for 50+ years and now thanks to , in just one decade...in a safe conventional way ...10 [biofortified] crops are available."
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By planting more climbing beans, Rwanda has managed to increase its productivity, and transform from a bean importer to an exporter. #CropsInColor traveled to the smallest African country to take a look at the important role beans play in Rwanda. stories.croptrust.org/story/cest-la-
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C'est vraiment la richesse!
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"Like so much in the world of #beans, it is #women who do the job. All over #Rwanda, women sit together and clean the harvest by hand, bean by bean - for the pot, the market, or to save or sell for next season’s seed."
#CropsInColor
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A Fabulous high iron beans story telling through beautiful pictures! Who else could have told the story if not ... Many thanks once again for visiting Rwanda and high iron beans farmers! #endhiddenhunger stories.croptrust.org/story/cest-la-
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Rwanda is a real success story for #biofortification. Iron beans are now 20% of total bean production and 15% of Rwandans (1.8mln people) are eating them, with the trends rising steadily. #ticad7
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Thanks to Rwanda's Hon. @undagijimana for highlighting the importance of biofortified crops like iron beans and vit A sweet potato in his govt.'s strategy to address malnutrition at #TICAD7 session. @HarvestPlus has been a proud partner in Rwanda's iron bean success. @A4NH_CGIAR
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Thanks to Rwanda's Hon. for highlighting the importance of biofortified crops like iron beans and vit A sweet potato in his govt.'s strategy to address malnutrition at #TICAD7 session. has been a proud partner in Rwanda's iron bean success.
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Happening right now at our side session: Paul Ilona is the Nigeria Country Manager, he is taking participants through the delivery challenges of Vitamin A cassava and how they overcome them along the way in Nigeria #FANUS2019 #EndHiddenHunger
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Live: Michael is part of our impact team, he is explaining all about biofortification impact pathway and the #iron beans delivery in Rwanda #FANUS2019 #EndHiddenHunher
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Professor Andrew Pretice giving a little bit of biofirtification background and the benefits of biofortified crops in a side event at #FANUS2019 #EndHiddenHunger
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Happening now! Eric Boy our Nutrition Head is explaining all about biofortification at #FANUS2019 #EndHiddenHunger
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Join us in a few minutes where our own Nutrition Head, Eric Boy will talk about scaling up biofortification based on evidence #FANUS2019 #EndHiddenHunger
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Good morning from a colorful biofortified crops and products table all the way from Nigeria,Zambia and Rwanda to #FANUS Conference in #Kigali! #EndHiddenHunger
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Good nutrition is crucial to children's health, development and success. For #InternationalYouthDay we're celebrating interventions like iron pearl millet, which was found to improve functional cognitive outcomes in adolescents.
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We've spent a week exploring the role #beans play in #Rwanda. Thanks , & , for your wonderful support. Thank you too to , , , #Panovita, #BRG & the Nyamirambo Women's Center. More #CropsInColor soon to come!
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And a recent study showed that, #biofortified iron beans reduce iron deficiency and improve cognitive abilities. 👉ow.ly/pkIe30keeLT #EndHiddenHunger
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The common #bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) provides enough balanced #nutrition to keep a person alive for a long time on that single food alone. It provides #protein, complex carbohydrates, fiber & valuable micronutrients, including calcium & #iron, to the human diet. #CropsInColor
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In the hands of Chef Claude,there is another popular #biofortified iron bean variety MC44 that is being grown and consumed by Rwandan households to #EndHiddenHunger . Thank you for visiting #Rwanda, we hope you enjoyed this yummy bean dish from
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We see a #biofortified high iron bean variety RWR 2245, it's a nutritious variety widely popular in #Rwanda farmers named it "mutiki ntoya"/small mutiki after another local variety that looks exactly like it but a little bit more long, it is so delicious! #EndHiddenHunger
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This week our #CropsInColor campaign explores the world & #diversity of #beans in #Rwanda. Today we visited the #Kimironko Market, where a corner stand was offering 9 varieties. Amazing work being done by @CIAT_ @HarvestPlusRw @_PABRA. Thanks @corteva for sponsoring the campaign.
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