Golden rice research paper

The vision for the global humanitarian Golden Rice project remains as it was when the creators of Golden Rice started their research: to make available to those resource poor rice consumers in developing countries who wanted it and could benefit from it, a costless source of vitamin A in their staple food rice.

Golden Rice. The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its national research partners have developed Golden Rice to complement existing interventions to address vitamin A deficiency (VAD). VAD is a serious public health problem affecting millions of children and pregnant women globally. In the south and southeast Asian countries, ...

The nutrition study is necessary to impartially determine the potential for Golden Rice to be used as a public health approach for reducing vitamin A deficiency. IRRI supports its national partners in developing pilot-scale deployment strategies to ensure that Golden Rice reaches the farmers and consumers that need it the most.

Adrian Dubock: The present status of Golden Rice 71 time of the UN meetings above. However the research, initiated also in the early 1990s which led to the creation in 1999 of what came to be known as Golden Rice[12], was initiated by the teams of Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in recognition of the same need.