Workshop – 17 September 2024
Stimulating adoption and production of biofortified feed and food for the UK.
London Metropolitan University, UK. Workshop project from Hamid Ghoddusi (LMU) and Jenny Walton (HarvestPlus) funded by the Biofortification Hub.
Leads and organisers Hamid Ghoddusi and Jenny Walton (21 attendees, 3 discussion groups).
Students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs): support was provided by the Biofortification Hub to B. Mogeni (The University of Sheffield, England) to attend this event.
Presentations:
- Introduction & welcome (H. Ghoddusi, London Metropolitan University, UK)
- Workshops – London Metropolitan University (P. Vain, Biofortification Hub, JIC-QIB, Norwich, UK)
- Biofortification – The learning from the HarvestPlus Program (J. Walton, HarvestPlus, USA)
- Major nutrition and public health issues for the UK – nutrients of concern and most commonly consumed foods (S. Lockyer, British Nutrition Foundation, UK)
- Biofortification – lessons in nutrition (M. Ashwell, Ashwell Associates ,UK)
- Biofortification: a retailer’s perspective (B. Shute, Sainsbury’s, UK)
- Food Systems Transformation using policy instruments (L. Brown, HarvestPlus, USA)
- Biofortification in the context of agricultural research (P. Howell, NIAB, UK)
- Mobilising the Healthcare Community (S. Cloran, Eat Well Global, USA)