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Martin Fregene

Title Director, Biocassava Plus
Organization Donald Danforth Plant Center

Dr. Martin Fregene is the director of Biocassava Plus, at the Donald Danforth Plant Center.

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Can an Improved Cassava Root Reduce Malnutrition?

April 13, 2011 / Martin Fregene

Perhaps you were fortunate to grow up eating a variety of foods that contain the necessary nutrients you need to grow and live a healthy life. For many, food with adequate nutrition is scarce, unavailable, or too expensive. Roughly one-third of the world’s population does not get enough nutrients from the food that they eat.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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