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Field Stories

June 15, 2011

GIS: improving health & lives in Pakistan by monitoring iodized salt

Imagine a tool that could help significantly reduce preventable brain damage, caused by a lack of iodine in the diet, by monitoring the quality of iodized salt produced.

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June 15, 2011

Reducing micronutrient deficiencies by training global Food Fortification Consultants

The Micronutrient Initiative and the International Agriculture Centre organized the first Food Fortification Technical Experts' Training Course in Wageningen, Netherlands in March 2002.

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May 5, 2011

Changing lives by awarding the Punjab’s Best Iodized Salt Processors

Safwan Hashmi proudly accepted the 2010 Best Salt Processor of the Year Award, on behalf of National Foods Limited, at the annual awards ceremony to recognize the Punjab's best salt processors,

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February 25, 2011

Food fortification in Senegal can increase micronutrient levels

For many years, MI has been working with food producers in Senegal to help them fortify their products - specifically cooking oil and wheat flour - with micronutrients.

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November 25, 2010

Micronutrient fortification of cereal flours at water mills in rural Nepal

In 2007, the Micronutrient Initiative began working with village millers in rural Nepal to help them add essential vitamins and minerals to the cereal flour they produce.

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October 28, 2010

Combining the right technology and revolving funds to build and sustain salt iodization in Senegal

In 2005, MI shifted its focus to work primarily with small processors where efforts to adequately iodize had been failing.

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September 20, 2010

Bima, Indonesia’s only female salt extender using salt to improve lives

Layli is the Micronutrient Initiative's first and only female salt extender in Indonesia.

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September 16, 2010

Pakistan: Flour fortification in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa improves maternal health

Five years after an earthquake devastated many regions in Pakistan, MI continues to help Pakistanis rebuild their lives by improving the health of their families through wheat flour fortification.

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May 19, 2010

Working with Afghanistan government to produce high-quality iodized salt locally

Afghanistan has one of the highest iodine deficiency rates in the world but improved processing capacity in the country could help eliminate the country's iodine deficiency disorders quickly.

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March 8, 2010

A salt producer from Ghana eliminates iodine deficiency one bag a time

From the corner of his expansive salt fields, overlooking three piles of pink-colored salt, Ernest Osei wonders how he's going to move his iodization machine.

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