scholarly journals Biofortification - Associated Costs and Finding Alternatives?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avik Ray
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
The People ◽  
Hidden Hunger ◽  
Nutritional Enhancement ◽  
Micronutrient Malnutrition

Biofortification refers to the increase in the amount of essential vitamins or provitamins or minerals in crops to improve the nutritional status of the people, which is largely intended to alleviate the problem of micronutrient malnutrition. I argue that biofortification may not be an effective weapon to fight against the hidden hunger since it demonstrates limited capacity on nutritional enhancement and can negatively impact the socio-economic fabric of the society in many different ways. Finally, I suggest a couple of alternatives that might meet the challenge more efficiently than biofortified crops.

Molecular breeding for increasing micronutrient content in sorghum.

2021 ◽  
pp. 476-497
Author(s):  
K. Hariprasanna ◽  
P. Rajendrakumar
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Modification ◽  
Molecular Breeding ◽  
Crop Breeding ◽  
Promising Strategy ◽  
Hidden Hunger ◽  
Micronutrient Malnutrition ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Sorghum Grain

Abstract This chapter summarizes the limited efforts that have been undertaken to enhance the micronutrient content in sorghum using molecular breeding approaches. Increasing the micronutrient content of sorghum grain is of paramount importance for alleviating malnutrition since it will help in overcoming the hidden hunger that is prevalent in millions of women and children in the sorghum-growing/consuming regions across the globe. It is known that biofortification involving crop breeding, genetic modification, and even agronomic augmentation of minerals, is a promising strategy that offers immense promise for addressing the challenges posed by micronutrient malnutrition.

scholarly journals Phytochemical, Nutritional and Pharmacological Potentialities of Amaranthus spinosus Linn. : A review

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Mehedy Hasan Abir ◽  
Monsur Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Functional Properties ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Pharmacological Activities ◽  
Functional Activities ◽  
Amaranthus Spinosus ◽  
Antigenic Activity ◽  
The People ◽  
Disease Condition ◽  
The World

Amaranthus spinosus has long been cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, especially in South Asia. It is well accepted by the people for its nutritional, pharmacological, phytochemical, and therapeutic functions in the human body. Tender stems, leaves, shoots, grains and sometimes the whole part of A. spinosus are eaten by humans or fed to farm animals, which contain carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fibers, vitamins, minerals and many other phytochemicals. This review aims to represent the nutritional and pharmacological activities of A. spinosus. To have a better understanding, we have discussed the nutritional status of A. spinosus, its available phytochemicals and their functional properties. Further, we demonstrated the potentiality of A. spinosus in various disease condition by discussing its functional activities, which includes antioxidant, antidiabetic, immuno-modulatory, hematological, gastrointestinal, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, antimicrobial, antimalarial, anti-ulcer, antipyretic, and antigenic activity. The availability of various important phytochemicals along with their functional properties make Amaranthus spinosus valuable for pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals industry.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN IBU BALITA TENTANG GIZI BALITA DENGAN STATUS GIZI BALITA DI RW 07 KELURAHAN DAYEUH LUHUR WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS BENTENG KOTA SUKABUMI

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Hana Haryani
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
P Value ◽  
Maternal Knowledge ◽  
Work Area ◽  
Nutritional Enhancement ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Nutritional Status Of Children ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Malnutrition affects nearly 15% of the population and mostly from developing countries. The children are the ones who often suffer malnutrition. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of knowledge mother of toddler nutrition with nutritional status of children under five in RW 07 Dayeuh Sublime Work Area Health Center Fort Sukabumi. This type of research is kolerasional. The study population was as much as 131 mothers and 99 samples taken maternal, Slovin calculated by the formula. Validity test showed there were 26 valid items, and reliability values obtained r =0,789. Hypothesis testing using Shomer's formula with p-value =0,026. The results showed the majority of knowledge mother included in both categories as much as 92,6%, and toddlers with good nutritional status as much as 90,9%. Based on the results of the study there is a relationship between maternal knowledge about toddler nutrition toddler with nutritional status of children. The conclusion of this study is known the better knowledge of the mother, the more toddlers with good nutritional status, and health centers are expected to improve educational programs and nutritional enhancement.

scholarly journals Exploring Limited Capacity in the Grid: Actors, Problems, and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Palm
Keyword(s):  
User Engagement ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
Electricity Grid ◽  
The People ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Energy Grid ◽  
The City

An extensive and reliable electricity grid is essential for all the sectors of society. In parts of Sweden, the electricity grid has been suffering from a lack of capacity. This is something affecting all the sectors and all the people in these regions. The capacity problems have, however, so far, mainly been analyzed from a technical system perspective, focusing on incumbent actors, whereas other actors have been less researched. This article aims to fill this gap and include a variety of perceptions of Swedish actors’ on the lack of electricity grid capacity. It is, however, a challenge to capture the views of others than the professionals working in the area because the electricity grid is not something people, in general, reflect upon. The article takes an explorative approach to the subject by analyzing the problems and the solutions raised in four arenas: the regulative, the media, the technocratic, and the user. It also focuses on the city of Malmö in Sweden and two projects where the lack of grid capacity has been discussed. Sweden’s lack of capacity concerns that, although electricity is available, the energy grid cannot transmit the required amount of electricity to all parts of the country. The article concludes that the electricity grid has been developed within a technocratic frame, with a few professionals dominating the agenda, which has led to convergence of perspectives and narrowing options. In the regulative arena, which often decides what issues are prioritized and in the end implemented, there is a focus on investment in transformers and lines rather than demand-side solutions and user flexibility. Technological and economical values are dominating all arenas, and other values, such as user engagement and ownership, are marginalized.

scholarly journals Compare of Food Habit and Nutritional Status of Rural Male and Female

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 556-572
Author(s):  
Redwan Rahman ◽  
Mahfuza Khanom Sheema
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Habit ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
North Western

ABSTRACT There is a big difference between male and female in the rural environment of Bangladesh and the aim of this eating habits and nutritional status. The study was conducted through 384 respondents from 9 villages in Ishwardi, Pabna; a north-western district of Bangladesh. The research has done on the food habits of the middle and lower class people of the villages. And some informations are collected from the different sources. In the research 73.44% of male earn more than 24 thousand BDT per month when only 43.32% female are earning more than 24 thousand BDT. Most of the female are housewives and male are service holder. 44.79% male  are service holder on the other hand 4.69% female are service holder. Rice is the main food for Bangladesh. So, most of the people have rice on daily three times. 37.80% of female and 66.98% of male are having rice. Ruti is the second priority food, female take this food 0.56% and male take 7.55% for 2 days. 63.33% female take egg, on the other hand 58.07% male take egg per week.  3.2% female her meal last of all and 1.5% female take it first of all. On the other hand 6.25% male take their meal first of all and 3.39% male take their meal last of all. Most of the female are normal having BMI 89.06% on the other hand male are overweight 78.18%. In the light of the study the eating habits of male and female in Bangladesh have improved but it has not yet affected everyone.          

scholarly journals Loss of Food Nutrients orchestrated by Cooking Pots: a common trend in developing world

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (OCE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uloma Onyeka ◽  
Obinna Ibeawchi
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin C ◽  
Moisture Content ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
Hidden Hunger ◽  
Abundant Evidence ◽  
Micronutrient Malnutrition ◽  
Macro Nutrients ◽  
Previous Idea

AbstractThere is abundant evidence that cooking reduces the level of nutrients in foods, but the reductions are exacerbated by among other factors the type of cooking pot used. We conducted a research to determine the influence of various cooking pots on macro and micronutrients of cooked foods. Seven pots and five types of food stuffs were used for the study. The cooking pots used included unpitted aluminum, pitted aluminum, stainless steel, titanium, enamel coated, clay (earthen) and iron-cast while the food stuff were chosen from the major classes of food as to include tubers (yam), cereals (rice), fleshy (beef), vegetables (tomato) and legumes (cowpea). Cooking pot forged from titanium offered best (up to 87.7%) protection (retention) of micronutrients while pitted aluminum pot offered the least retention irrespective of the food sample cooked. Significant portions of food micro nutrients namely vitamin C, vitamin A and selenium were mostly affected compared with the macro nutrients. In the course of our investigations we observed that titanium and enamel coated cooking pots required less quantity of water to get food done. The use of less water to cook transmitted to low (69.67%) moisture content of food cooked in such pots compared to values as high as 76.89% when other pots were used. Food cooked with less water may impact better taste to food since the food is expected to be more nutrient-dense; having considerable lower moisture content. Our research evidenced that cooking pot can have a strong impact on people's morbidity since some pots can aggravate hidden hunger, that is, micronutrient malnutrition. Hidden hunger is a subtle enemy that drains away health and vitality unnoticed until it is too late to reverse. It is crucial to state here that our findings may have turned on its head the previous idea of using pressure pot to cook food. Pots that offered low-pressure cooking (80°C/0.48 bar) was found to preserve the most heat liable (vitamin C and volatiles) nutrients probably because of the lower water boiling temperature and reduced level of oxygen. Our conclusion and recommendation, therefore, is the use of titanium and enamel surface coated cooking pots which offered better protection of food micronutrients among other cooking pots tested. This is a piece of information that is quite vital and beneficial to food consumers, manufacturers of cook wares, operators and key players in the food processing industry.

Education, Propaganda, and the People: Democratic paternalism in 1930s Siam

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1122-1142 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARJUN SUBRAHMANYAN
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
Top Down ◽  
People's Party ◽  
The People ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Second Category

AbstractOn the morning of 24 June 1932 the ‘People's Party’, a small group of civil and military bureaucrats, toppled the Thai absolute monarchy and introduced constitutional democracy. This article discusses the establishment of democracy as an endeavour in ‘democratic paternalism,’ by which is meant the Party's attempt to establish a new moral and intellectual leadership that had as its main goal the creation of a depoliticized democratic citizenry. To implement their programme for democracy, the Party embarked on an ambitious plan to modernize education and explain popular sovereignty through countrywide lectures and radio programmes. The democratic paternalist effort had mixed results. State weakness limited the reach of the educational and propaganda campaigns, and further the ‘people’ in whose name the revolution was staged, constituted two different groups: a largely illiterate peasantry and a small, incipient new intelligentsia. Because of its limited capacity, the People's Party tasked the second group with assisting in democratic mentorship of the masses, but many in this second category of people had a broader conception of democracy than the Party's ‘top-down’ model and criticized the Party for its paternalist constraints on popular sovereignty. Democratic paternalism and frustration with the limits imposed on popular democracy are two central aspects of this period of history that have endured in Thai society.

scholarly journals Programs Against Micronutrient Malnutrition: Ending Hidden Hunger

1994 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
G F Maberly ◽  
F L Trowbridge ◽  
R Yip ◽  
K M Sullivan ◽  
C E West
Keyword(s):  
Hidden Hunger ◽  
Micronutrient Malnutrition
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