Genetically modified rice that contains beta-carotene, widely known as Golden Rice (GR), has not yet been introduced in any country. It was developed to address Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in low-income rice consumers, but currently needs much more development and testing before it can be introduced into farmers’ fields. GR is the most famous biofortification effort undertaken with modern biotec...

2014[17] National Agriculture and Food Research Organization(NARO), National Food Research Institute, Food Engineering Division, Instrumentation and Information Engineering Laboratory Head, Senior Research Fellow, Doctor of Engineering National Agriculture and Food Research Organization(NARO), National Food Research Institute, Food Engineering Division, Instrumentation and Information Engineeri...

Bevan Emma Huang,* Antonio Reverter, Ian Purvis, and Scott Chapman, *Digital Productivity, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Dutton Park QLD 4102, Australia, †Agriculture, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, St Lucia QLD 4067, Australia, and ‡Agriculture, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Armidale NSW 2350...

1 The Minerva Otto Warburg Center for Biotechnology in Agriculture and The Robert H. Smith Institute for Plant Science and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel 2 Department of Virology, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel 3 Plant Protection and Inspection Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Bet Dagan, Israel 4 D...

a Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy; b Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland; c Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos (INTA), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; d Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London ...

In the mind of the general public, the rural sector is equal to agriculture and for a great majority of policymakers, rural development continues to mean agricultural development. Not surprisingly, it is a sector traditionally covered at the governmental level by the ministries of agriculture, and at the international development level by agencies with an agricultural development mandate such a...