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		<title>Public Health Experts Take On UN’s Zero Hunger Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, D.C, June 25 —A new initiative, the Community for Zero Hunger, was launched today.It will identify the greatest gaps that remain in reducing hunger and malnutrition, and leverage the private sector to help fill those gaps at scale.
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		<title>Love, Domestic Strife, Money and….Orange Sweet Potato</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington DC June 18, 2013,  Florence struggles to grow enough nutritious food to feed her family, and knows that her children are not as healthy as they could be. She reluctantly decides to give OSP a try&#8230;find out more about this new radio dram...]]></description>
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		<title>UK Invests in Six Super Crops to Help Beat Global Hunger</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK government granted £30 million to HarvestPlus to develop and deliver six nutritious crops to several million farming households in Africa and Asia. These ar vitamin A-rich cassava and maize, iron-rich beans and pearl millet, and zinc-rich wheat...]]></description>
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		<title>More Vitamin A Possible from Cassava, Says New Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New research shows that the human body can absorb twice as much beta-carotene from vitamin A cassava than was previously assumed.
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		<title>CGIAR and FAO Researchers Challenged to Address Global Malnutrition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted from the Policies, Institutions and Markets website
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		<title>Nutri-farms to Tackle Malnutrition in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every third malnourished child in the world today lives in India. India’s Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, is calling the country’s current malnutrition crisis “a national shame.”
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		<title>Biofortification moves forward in LAC Countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A multidisciplinary team of experts gathered in Cali, Colombia for a workshop on setting breeding targets for biofortified crops in Latin American and Caribbean(LAC) countries.
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		<title>Experts on Hidden Hunger to meet in Hohenheim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="96" height="96" src="http://cgiarweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/120-2082_IMG-96x96.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail entry-image wp-post-image" alt="Experts on Hidden Hunger to meet in Hohenheim" title="Experts on Hidden Hunger to meet in Hohenheim" style="float: left; margin:3px;" />The University of Hohenheim in Germany will be holding the International Congress Hidden Hunger, From Assessment to Solutions, from March 6-9, 2013.
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		<title>Boosting Harvests and Profits with High-Iron Bean</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Ntwari, a 38-year-old farmer in Nyagatare district of Rwanda, harvested mostly maize for many years, but he is now an advocate for high-iron bean. During get-togethers in his village Matimba, he talks to fellow farmers about adopting these new...]]></description>
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		<title>HarvestPlus: The Year 2012 in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a remarkable year of accomplishments at HarvestPlus.
Releasing micronutrient-rich staple crops such as maize, pearl millet, cassava, and beans in several countries were a few of the significant milestones for HarvestPlus this year.
Watch th...]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Scale-Up Access to Biofortified Foods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To turn the tide on hunger, agricultural science must provide more than increased yield and grain production. Trends in global health and nutrition suggest that improved crop science can reduce health risks and improve public health. Experts acknowledg...]]></description>
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		<title>Getting High-Iron Pearl Millet Out to Farmers</title>
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		<comments>http://www.harvestplus.org/content/getting-high-iron-pearl-millet-out-farmers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of a traditional pearl millet variety that has higher levels of iron and higher yields is now available in markets throughout Maharashtra, India. And farmers have been buying it up. In May 2012 Nirmal Seeds began selling this conventional...]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Thanks to Sweet Potato – Recipes from Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orange Sweet Potato pie is a thanksgiving classic marking the beginning of the holiday season with its earthy, sweet aroma. The orange hue of the sweet potato not only thrills food enthusiasts but also public health experts because of its orange color ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: New Partnership Provides Nutritious Foods to School Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="96" height="96" src="http://cgiarweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Biofortkids-96x96.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail entry-image wp-post-image" alt="Brazil: New Partnership Provides Nutritious Foods to School Children" title="Brazil: New Partnership Provides Nutritious Foods to School Children" style="float: left; margin:3px;" />Experts who gathered at the Second Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD2) in Uruguay say they want to march into a future where agricultural research remains fast paced, innovation ratchets up production, and the welfare of...]]></description>
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		<title>Life of Vitamin A Cassava</title>
		<link>http://vimeo.com/channels/harvestplus/51446573</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="96" height="96" src="http://cgiarweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/355256877_200-96x96.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail entry-image wp-post-image" alt="Life of Vitamin A Cassava" title="Life of Vitamin A Cassava" style="float: left; margin:3px;" />Take a look through the life of vitamin A cassava in Nigeria.
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		<title>NGOs Are Our Feet on the Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NGOs played a crucial role in HarvestPlus’s efforts to roll out the first of the biofortified crops – the orange sweet potato (OSP) – in Uganda and Mozambique.
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		<title>Senator McGovern Acknowledged Biofortification Critical to Reducing Malnutrition</title>
		<link>http://www.harvestplus.org/content/senator-mcgovern-acknowledged-biofortification-critical-reducing-malnutrition</link>
		<comments>http://www.harvestplus.org/content/senator-mcgovern-acknowledged-biofortification-critical-reducing-malnutrition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Senator George McGovern from South Dakota passed away while in hospice care in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90.
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		<title>Celebrating Vitamin A Cassava on World Food Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="96" height="96" src="http://cgiarweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/IMG_1127-96x96.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail entry-image wp-post-image" alt="Celebrating Vitamin A Cassava on World Food Day" title="Celebrating Vitamin A Cassava on World Food Day" style="float: left; margin:3px;" />If we awarded prizes for the most outstanding crops on World Food Day, cassava should be among the top contenders.
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		<title>Disseminating Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato: Mozambique Country Report</title>
		<link>http://www.harvestplus.org/content/disseminating-orange-fleshed-sweet-potato-mozambique-country-report</link>
		<comments>http://www.harvestplus.org/content/disseminating-orange-fleshed-sweet-potato-mozambique-country-report#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 2007-2009, HarvestPlus and its partners disseminated orange-fleshed sweet potato to more than 24,000 households in Mozambique and Uganda to see if we could reduce vitamin A deficiency—through food. This publication presents the results for Mozam...]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Hunger Event is Over: What Next?</title>
		<link>http://www.harvestplus.org/content/global-hunger-event-over-what-next</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HarvestPlus Director on what we must do &#8220;if we are to race, not inch, towards the finish line of significantly improving nutrition by the next Olympic Games.&#8221;
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