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Prioritizing Nutritional Crops for Health in Central America and the Caribbean

This report outlines the efforts of the AgroSalud project, focusing on the prioritization of specific crops and countries in Central America and the Caribbean to combat nutritional deficiencies. The initiative addresses iron, zinc, and vitamin A deficiencies in Nicaragua, Honduras, Mexico, and other countries through the release of biofortified crop varieties. Acceptance studies on quality protein maize in El Salvador and rice cultivars in Bolivia illustrate the project's outreach. Despite limited budgets and time constraints, AgroSalud aims to improve public health through strategic crop selection and community engagement.

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Prioritizing Nutritional Crops for Health in Central America and the Caribbean

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  1. Prioritizing countries and crops for H+ LAC Salomón Pérez S. Carolina González Washington DC, October 18th-19th, 2012

  2. Crops released in AgroSalud

  3. Crops released in AgroSalud

  4. What was done in AgroSalud? • DALYs: Iron and zinc for Nicaragua, Honduras, México, Colombia and northeast Brazil. Vitamin A. Colombia, Honduras, México, Haiti and Nicaragua

  5. What was done in AgroSalud? • Acceptance studies: El Salvador: Maize QPM “Acceptance of maize QPM cultivars: Platino, Oro blanco and Protemás in El Salvador” Published in Agricultura Técnica in México. Sample size: 133.

  6. What was done in AgroSalud? • Acceptance studies: Nicaragua: Potential acceptance of quality protein maize (Nutrader, NutrintaAmarillo and Mazorca de Oro by farmerfamilies in Northern Nicaragua. Published in Agronomia Mesoamericana. Samplesize 142.

  7. What was done in AgroSalud? • Acceptance studies (suspended): Cuba: Acceptance analysis of black bean cultivar with higher iron content Cubana 23 in Cuba. Has been suspended. Sample size 100. Bolivia.Acceptanceanalysis of rice cultivarswithhighercontent of iron and zinc, Azucena y Saavedra 27 in Bolivia. Samplesize 195.

  8. Main constraints in AgroSalud I • Limited budged ( US$ 50,000 for three years) • Limited time: most of the cultivars were released at the end of the project. • 30% SalomónPérez time during the first year and 50% the following two • No records about seeds distribution • NAR´s innestability • Lack of information (cultivars to be released, where, when, etc)

  9. Crops and countries selection • Criteria: 1. National production (per capita) • Consumption (per capita) • Iron, Zinc or Vitamin A deficiency as a level of public health problem • Income (per capita) • Poverty (<1.25 US/day) Information sources: Production and consumption: FAO (2009). Iron deficiency: Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005. WHO  Zinc deficiency: Assessment of the Risk of Zinc Deficiency in Populations and Options for Its Control. IZING. Vitamin A: Global prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in populations at risk 1995–2005. WHO. 2005. Income and Poverty: World Bank

  10. Priorized countries and crops for H+ LAC in Central America and the Caribbean

  11. Potential Socioeconomic Studies First year: -Diagnostic per selected countries to identify diffusion strategies (main actors, geographic zones, target populating) -Baseline construction for at least two countries where biofortifed cultivars are close to be released (Nicaragua-Bolivia). -Adoption analysis for bean cultivar ICTA PETEN in Guatemala - Panama –Beans: Base Line Second year: -Consumer and producer acceptance analysis for different crops recently released in two different countries

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