Combating Malnutrition Using Safer, Affordable, and Nutritious Grain Amaranth Crop Products

Dyness Kejo of the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Center in Tanzania will develop an affordable, ready-to-use therapeutic food based on amaranth to treat malnutrition in children in Tanzania. Amaranth is a nutritious, high-yielding, and drought-tolerant crop. They will optimize the recipe for an amaranth-based therapeutic food as a substitute for those based on nuts, and then validate the product's nutritional content and safety. They will establish farm demonstration plots of the relevant amaranth variety and plan nutrition education programs and campaigns. They will also develop training to support women and youth in setting up horticulture-based businesses, including for the amaranth product.