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By Patrice Talla, FAO Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa A food systems approach promotes biofortified vitamin A orange maize. ©FAO 19/05/2021 19 May 2021, Harare – Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children globally and an important contributor to the burden of night blindness in pregnant women and severe illness and death in children under the age of five. Southern Africa is not spared.  In Zimbabwe, nearly one in five children under the age of five are vitamin A deficient. Micronutrient deficiency, also known as hidden hunger, is a result of consuming on a day-to-day basis a diet composed mostly of starchy staples. In Zimbabwe, rural diets mainly consist of what farming families can grow, which is predominantly white maize. However, white maize is high in starch and very low in nutritional value.

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