{"id":1080,"date":"2022-09-12T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2022-09-14T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:32:10","slug":"technoserve-launches-new-food-fortification-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/09\/12\/technoserve-launches-new-food-fortification-program\/","title":{"rendered":"TechnoServe launches new food fortification program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA0100-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1081\" width=\"474\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA0100-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA0100-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA0100-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA0100-1200x881.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA0100.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>by Maximilla Wafula <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International , non- Profit economic development organization TechnoServe has today officially launched a program that aims to widen the variety of Fortified foods , ensuring Kenyan consumers continue to have access to nutritious meals .<br>TechnoServe , with the support from a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , has launched the technical Assistance Accelerator program ( TAAP) which aims at increasing the level and variety of Fortified foods by working with stakeholders to Increase compliance<br>TAAP will provide technical assistance and advocate for high &#8211; quality inputs to , among others , large and small -scale miller&#8217;s , action are aimed at motivating these stakeholders to comply with national fortification regulations.<br>The Covid- pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict have disrupted supply chains upending the global trade of Agricultural goods , while three consecutive years of drought in East Africa has resulted in growing levels of food and scarcity and hunger . Mounting increase in the price of food staples has also forced households to alter their diets , likely impacting their consumption of essentials nutrients . The prospect of lower calorie intakes increases the importance of fortifying staple food such as maize flour , rice and edible oil, said Dominic ( Schofield ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"725\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA01051.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA01051.jpg 725w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG-20220912-WA01051-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>TAAP will strengthen African Processors on fortified Foods (SAPFF) program launched in 2017 which worked towards to increase food fortification compliance levels in two staples in Kenya -wheat and Maize flour .<br>TAAP will work with various stakeholders including the ministry of Health , the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS ), Cereal Miller&#8217;s Association (CMA) , Kenya Association of Manufacture&#8217;s (KAM), United Grain Miller&#8217;s Association (UGMA), development partners and a academic institutions .<br>Food fortification has been widely identified as a cost effective strategy for addressing micronutrients malnutrition at scale .In Kenya , more than one in four children under the age of five is stunted , with poor nutrition a prime factor in nearly a third of deaths of children under five . Malnutrition also contributes to poor growth and physiological deficiencies in children , birth defects , high rates of disability and illness , and overall lower productivity , which can reduce Counties GDPs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ends .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Maximilla Wafula The International , non- Profit economic development organization TechnoServe has today officially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}