Resources Tagged: Micronutrients

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  1. Acid Soils of the Tropics

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    2002-01-01 Acidification of soil is a natural process with major ramifications on plant growth. As soils become more acid, particularly when the pH drops below 4.5, it becomes increasingly difficult to produce food crops. As soil pH declines, the supply of most plant nutrients decreases while aluminum and a...
    Soil pH Calcium Lime Fertilizer Ammonium Nitrate Alkaline Acidity Micronutrients Soil

  2. Traditional Food-Processing and Preparation Practices to Enhance the Bioavailability of Micronutrients in Plant-Based Diets

    Abstract, The Journal of Nutrition, 2007 Dietary quality is an important limiting factor to adequate nutrition in many resource-poor settings. One aspect of dietary quality with respect to adequacy of micronutrient intakes is bioavailability. Several traditional household food-processing and...
    Nutrition Micronutrients

  3. Selenium and Human Health

    2015-01-20 Selenium (Se), along with iron, zinc, and iodine, is one of a number of essential micronutrients that must be consumed in sufficient amounts in order to maintain human health. Selenium is part of a number of proteins within the human body that play an important role in protecting our bodies from...
    Human Health Micronutrients HIV/AIDS Health and Nutrition

  4. FAO's Role in Nutrition

    Good nutrition is our first defence against disease and our source of energy to live and be active. Nutritional problems caused by an inadequate diet can be of many sorts, and when they affect a generation of youngsters, they can lower their learning capacities, thus compromising their futures,...
    Micronutrients Sustainable Food S... Malnutrition FAO Nutrition Education Basic Nutrition

  5. Micronutrients in Agriculture; Proceedings of a Symposium Held at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, April 20-22, 1971,

    Proceedings of a symposium held at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, April 20-22, 1971, and cosponsored by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Soil Science Society of America.
    Micronutrients Trace Elements

  6. Home Fortification with Micronutrient Powders (MNP)

    2013-01-01 An overview of what has been accomplished in home fortification with micronutrients and what has been accomplished in in different settings (refugee camps, emergency relief, schools, market-based) is presented. A guide to future programs are presented in this publication.
    Food-Fortified Micronutrients Children-Nutrition...

  7. micronutrients and the nutrient status of soils: A global study

    1982-01-01 444 pages, tables FAO Soils Bulletin 48
    Soil science Micronutrients

  8. HarvestPlus - Seed

    Conventional plant breeding and modern technology can increase the density of micronutrients in staple crops grown and consumed by smallholder farmers around the world. This means that tens of millions of people today, many having suffered from the effects of "hidden hunger," are eating more...
    Biofortified Crops Micronutrients

  9. Boosting Iron Intake with Beans

    Iron deficiency anemia is the most common nutrient deficiency among Americans. It affects children and young women most often, but anyone can fall short of the RDA for this mineral. When iron intake is too low, the body can’t make enough red blood cells. The result can be fatigue, headaches and...
    Beans Antinutrients Iron Micronutrients

  10. Bean Institute - Nutrition

    Beans are a simply delicious, naturally nutritious food. We’re talking about dry edible beans, beans that are harvested when the beans are dry in the seed pod. All types of beans—including black, cranberry, Great Northern, dark red kidney, light red kidney, white kidney, navy, pink, pinto, and...
    Beans Micronutrients