Biofortification: Future Challenges for a Newly Emerging Technology to Improve Nutrition Security Sustainably

Twenty years ago, biofortification was an unproven approach to reducing mineral and vitamin deficiencies. Today, an estimated 330 million people globally are eating biofortified foods.

This is a synopsis of a comprehensive review of the progress of biofortification recently published titled “Biofortification: Future Challenges for a Newly Emerging Technology to Improve Nutrition Security Sustainably”. It sets out the rationale for biofortification and documents the progress achieved in biofortification over the past 20 years. It also looks forward, laying out future challenges for biofortification and taking the perspective that twenty years is a brief time span in the development and deployment of an ever-evolving novel agricultural innovation that requires co-participation of the public, private, and non-governmental organization sectors.