Workshops

Highlights:

• Frances Knight – Nutritious diets are to key combatting and protecting against malnutrition. However, across the globe, nutritious meals on average cost five times more than a diet that meet only energy needs and would be unaffordable for more than 3 billion people.
• Frances Knight – Senegal increased coverage of school feeding program to two additional regions and approximately 300 additional schools and 60k more students in response to COVID19 because they were seeing the social and economic impact the pandemic was having and school meal programs were seen as an effective way to combat the hunger issues.
• Lynn Brown – Biofortification is a process of increasing the density of vitamins and minerals in a crop through conventional plant breading or agronomic practices, so that the biofortified crops, when consumed regularly will generate measurable improvement in vitamin and mineral nutritional status
• Lynn Brown – Schoolchildren in Colombia liked biofortified beans in terms of color, smell, taste, and size, shedding light on biofortification’s potential to be scaled up as integrated into school-feeding programs.
• Aakanksha Nayyar – “Malnutrition could exacerbate the effects of COVID-19 in mothers and children. access to nutritious, safe, and affordable diets needs to be safeguarded and promoted as a cornerstone of the response to COVID-19.”
• Soraya Pinto Linares – COVID “The COVID 19 Pandemic deepens the malnutrition crises and the initial consequences of the pandemic gave rise to the destruction to the food supply chains due to lockdown and travel restrictions and this along with the global economic downturn and reduced family income was linked to reduction in food calories and micronutrient access”