Photo: Xaume Olleros/RTI

Photo: Xaume Olleros/RTI

 

Resources for implementing rice fortification

As implementing rice fortification evolves as a way to improve public health, multi-sector partners are working together to provide technical resources. Some of the recent implementation resources include:

English

  • Map of countries with mandatory rice fortification and those where more than 75 grams of rice are available for human consumption per day.

  • FFI and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) report on the feasibility and potential coverage of fortified rice in the Africa rice supply chain

  • Fortified rice has the potential to improve nutrition for 130 million people in 12 African countries

  • Proposed nutrients and nutrient levels for rice fortification

  • Summary of the World Food Programme's experience with rice fortification

  • August 2016 presentation on evidence and current status of rice fortification and lessons learned from grain fortification

  • Public and private sector experiences on rice fortification in Colombia. Also see a PowerPoint presentation based on this study.

  • Scaling Up Rice Fortification in Asia, a workshop report published by Sight and Life and the World Food Programme in 2015

  • Rice fortification's impact on nutrition, a peer-reviewed brief written by the Food Fortification Initiative October 2014

  • World Food Programme (WFP) experiences with fortified rice, as presented by Judith Smit, Rice Fortification Manager for the WFP Regional Bureau for Asia, in April 2014

  • A video explaining one extrusion rice fortification technique in English and Portuguese

  • Rice fortification plan implementation: Its potential for improving micronutrient intake and steps required for implementation at scale. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2012, vol. 33, no. 4. S360-S372

  • Implementing rice fortification: An emerging opportunity to contribute to the elimination of vitamin and mineral deficiency worldwide. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2012, vol. 33, no. 4, 296-307

  • Rice Fortification in Developing Countries: A Critical Review of the Technical and Economic Feasibility, a 2008 publication by the U.S. Agency for International Development, A2Z, Academy for Educational Development, and the Institute of Food Technologies

Espanol

  • Dinámicas de los sectores del arroz para lograr su fortificación: La experiencia de Colombia y sus lecciones

  • La fortificación del grano de arroz. Un repaso de la oportunidad que representa la fortificación del grano del arroz para la población consumidora de arroz y para la industria arrocera y las opciones tecnológicas que existen para realizarla

  • Resumen de las Evidencias y Situación Actual de la Fortificación del Arroz y Desafíos en la Fortificación de Granos

 
 

Resources