Sentences with phrase «evaluate golden rice»

He led the work of IRRI and other partners to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential way to address vitamin A deficiency through projects in the Philippines and Bangladesh and for Indonesia.

The display highlighted new details about our work, which is to evaluate Golden Rice as a potential tool to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines and Bangladesh.

Our project to develop and evaluate Golden Rice in the Philippines and Bangladesh hopes to build on this knowledge in the future to evaluate whether daily consumption of Golden Rice improves vitamin A status.

Summary: Leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations are working together to further develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential tool to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines and Bangladesh.

The Department of Agriculture — Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA - PhilRice) is collaborating with IRRI to develop and evaluate Golden Rice because of its potential to help reduce vitamin A deficiency.

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and national rice research institutes in Bangladesh and the Philippines have joined with Helen Keller International (HKI), a leading global health organization that reduces blindness and prevents malnutrition worldwide, in a new effort to further develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential tool to reduce vitamin A deficiency.

As IRRI and its partners continue to evaluate Golden Rice in compliance with biotechnology regulations in place here in the Philippines and other countries where we work, we're grateful for this and all other statements of support that we continue to receive from around the world.

Over the past several years, I've been working with our project team to develop and evaluate Golden Rice varieties for farmers and consumers in the Philippines that could help reduce vitamin A deficiency.

This project pulls together a mix of partners with different agricultural and nutritional expertise that will help us evaluate Golden Rice — an essential part of the process that will provide data to national regulatory authorities in their assessment of this new rice.

These field trials form part of the Golden Rice project that the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is working on together with other leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines.

IRRI is working with leading nutrition and agricultural research organizations to develop and evaluate Golden Rice as a potential new way to reduce vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines, Bangladesh and other countries.

While our current project is looking at developing and evaluating Golden Rice for the Philippines and Bangladesh — two countries that suffer horribly from vitamin A deficiency — Golden Rice has potential to help beyond these countries in the future too.

Our confined field test is just one of the many steps in evaluating Golden Rice as a potential new food to help address the persistent and pervasive problem of vitamin A deficiency in the Philippines.

But in the interests of those children and women whose vision and lives Golden Rice might be able to improve, we hope that we are supported to continue investigating and evaluating Golden Rice — because it really is looking like it could help.

Not exact matches

We sought this support by discussing with them the ultimate goal of our research — to develop Golden Rice varieties with good levels of beta carotene so that Golden Rice could be evaluated as a potential way to reduce vitamin A deficiency.

Data about Golden Rice collected from these field trials is being compiled and will eventually be submitted to DA - BPI who will evaluate the data as part of their biosafety regulatory process.

We're regularly updating our website to share information about Golden Rice and our work to develop and evaluate it as a potential way to reduce vitamin A deficiency.

Successful completion of this first outdoor experiment at PhilRice provided us with valuable data to help us evaluate and develop Golden Rice varieties that are suited to the needs of farmers in different growing regions.

After obtaining the necessary permits and approvals, an independent community nutrition study will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy of Golden Rice; in other words, whether or not it improves vitamin A status.

A new partner from the nutrition sector, Helen Keller International (HKI) has recently joined the project to evaluate whether Golden Rice will actually improve vitamin A status.

The field trials are an important step in evaluating if Golden Rice is safe and effective, and can be planted, grown, and harvested just like other popular rice varietRice is safe and effective, and can be planted, grown, and harvested just like other popular rice varietrice varieties.

The field was part of a scientific trial of golden rice designed to evaluate its safety and utility as a crop.