مورد إلكتروني
An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: An food systems analysis
| العنوان: | An enabling environment for the national flour blending policy: An food systems analysis |
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| المصدر: | In Food systems transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the past and policy options for the future, eds. Clemens Breisinger, Michael Keenan, Juneweenex Mbuthia, and Jemimah Njuki. Part 6: Toward more sustainable food systems, Chapter 16, Pp. 409-432. |
| بيانات النشر: | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Washington, DC 2023 |
| تفاصيل مُضافة: | Melesse, Mequanint B.; Tessema, Yohannis Mulu; Manyasa, Eric; Hall, Andrew |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| وصف مادي: | 23 pages 85380 Bytes |
| مستخلص: | PR IFPRI4; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all A national flour blending policy is about to be implemented in Kenya. This requires maize flour (the country’s main staple) to be blended with at least 10 percent of either one or a composite of traditional crops, such as sorghum and millet.1 The blending ratio is expected to increase gradually, with the goal of ultimately reaching 30 percent. The policy envisages achieving several goals. The first is to improve the nutritional quality of maize flour: sorghum and millet (and other candidate blending crops) have micronutrient characteristics that are absent in maize. The second is to promote more climate-tolerant crops and technologies: sorghum and millet can be grown in less favorable arid and semiarid lands (ASALs), in the very conditions that many farmers face in Kenya. This is particularly important given that maize is more susceptible than other staple crops to climate change. The third is to reduce the country’s overreliance on imported maize and concerns about its food sovereignty. |
| الموضوعات: | flours; grain; micronutrients; climate; food sovereignty; climate change |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | KENYA; EAST AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA; AFRICA, flours; grain; micronutrients; climate; food sovereignty; climate change, Book chapter, Book chapter, Book Chapter |
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| الإتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content |
| ملاحظة: | English English |
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