The role of mycotoxin contamination in nutrition: The aflatoxin story

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dc.creatorAyalew, Amare
dc.creatorHoffmann, Vivian
dc.creatorLindahl, Johanna
dc.creatorEzekiel, Chibundu N.
dc.date2016-10-17
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:51Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:24:51Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:37:50Z
dc.descriptionOver the past decade, there has been increasing recognition that the quantity of food alone guarantees neither food security nor adequate nutrition as measured by metrics such as hunger, malnutrition, and stunting. Increasingly, policy and decision makers understand the need to include nutritional aspects into improvements of food systems. However, not as fully recognized is that unsafe, contaminated foods thwart these efforts and maintain an unacceptable status quo in food insecurity, poverty, and a range of health-related problems. All of this makes sustainable development more challenging. In 2010, foodborne hazards caused 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths across the world, with 40 percent of this disease burden occurring among children under five years of age (Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition 2016). Yet food safety has become an important precondition for access to global food markets and, increasingly, for high-value domestic markets in developing countries.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148494
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109971
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295933
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAyalew, Amare; Hoffmann, Vivian; Lindahl, Johanna; and Ezekiel, Chibundu N. 2016. The role of mycotoxin contamination in nutrition: The aflatoxin story. In Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa: The road to healthier diets and optimal nutrition. Covic, Namukolo and Hendriks, Sheryl L. (Eds.). Chapter 8. Pp. 98-114. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295933_08.
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectbiofortification
dc.subjectmycotoxins
dc.subjecteconomic growth
dc.subjectundernutrition
dc.subjecteconomic development
dc.subjectnutrition policies
dc.subjectagricultural growth
dc.subjectagricultural policies
dc.subjectindicators
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectevaluation
dc.subjectmalnutrition
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectaflatoxins
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectagricultural development
dc.subjectfood consumption
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectdiet
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleThe role of mycotoxin contamination in nutrition: The aflatoxin story
dc.typeBook Chapter

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