Food industry: Bridging Nigeria’s malnutrition gap
By Guardian Exclusive
29 June 2021 |
5:00 am
Stakeholders in Nigeria's food industry have committed to large-scale food fortification as a means to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in staple foods in Nigeria.
In this article
- civilsociety
- Data
- Death
- deficiencies
- Development
- dialogue
- diets
- Disability
- drug
- flour
- food
- FoodsystemsSummit
- GlobalAlliance
- growth
- Healthy
- malnutrition
- Matrix
- micronutrient
- NAFDAC
- NationalAgency
- NationalFortificationAlliance
- Nigeria
- nutrition
- Ogundairo Abiodun
- Oil
- OrganizationofNigeria
- packagedfoods
- product
- salt
- scaling
- sugar
- vitamins
- wheat
- Worldwide
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