West Africa makes headway on food fortification
Basic nutrients people need to survive have been added to food around the world for almost a century, but West Africa is only now leading the way for the same life-saving technique to be rolled out in Africa, although experts warn it is just one small component in combating under-nutrition.
“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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