West Africa makes headway on food fortification

“West Africa has made more progress in food fortification than anywhere else on the continent except possibly South Africa,” said Shawn Baker, West Africa regional director of the non-governmental organisation Helen Keller International (HKI).

However “it is important not to oversell it,” he emphasised. “Large-scale food fortification is not going to solve all the region's problems, but the levels of deficiency in West Africa are huge and I think the large-scale programs like this do nonetheless help in making an overall reduction.”

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