This project is coordinated by IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
NUTRIPASS "Prevention of malnutrition and associated pathologies" department
UMR Nutripass
BP 64501
911, avenue Agropolis
34394 Montpellier Cedex
FRANCE
Jacques BERGER , Coordinator
Gentiane BLANCHARD , Manager
Tel : + 33 (0)4 67 41 63 67
Fax: + 33 (0)4 67 41 61 57
Wageningen University, Netherlands
The University
WU is an international knowledge institution, making essential contributions to the quality of life with pioneering research and innovative teaching programmes in the areas of food and food production, living environment and health, lifestyle and livelihood. WU has around 2500 staff members, 6000 students covering 104 nationalities and is divided in 5 Research Groups and 67 Laboratories.
The WU Division of Human Nutrition aims at improving human health through nutrition. Research is focused at the cell, individual and population level The research strategy studies nutrition themes throughout these three levels of integration when possible.
Focus is on the role of diet in energy and nutrient balance, the Impact of diet on tissue vitality and health outcomes and on food intake and its determinants. Methods and facilities are available to measure food and nutrient intake, food composition, micronutrient deficiencies and bioavailability, sensory perception of foods, food habits, anthropometrics, energy balance, body composition, and cognitive function.
The Division has 20 university staff, 30 technical staff, and over 40 PhD fellows.
Within Europe the Division of Human Nutrition plays a leading role in the European Nutrition Leadership Programme and is involved in various EU funded research projects.
Internationally, it is a WHO Collaborative Centre and has considerable expertise in field studies in developing countries focusing on the efficacy of (bio) fortified foods like yellow cassava (Kenya), fonio (Mali), cowpea (Ghana), mungbean (India), lupine (Ecuador), and in Benin, Mali and Burkina Faso on food habits and mineral (bio-)availability in communities consuming millet- and/or sorghum-based diets.
Main tasks in the project
The WU is leader of WP3 (FCT), and contribute to WP2 (data and intervention mapping), WP4 (linear programming) and WP5 (summarizing of data and recommendation from WP2 – WP4).
"SMILING for Action", Final dissemination event, 3rd April, Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
The final dissemination event will be organized Thursday 3rd of April 2014, at Sofitel Phnom-Penh, Cambodia. The five national roadmaps of priority interventions to prevent micronutrient deficiencies during the project will be presented to a large audience of stakeholders, policymakers, representatives of International organizations involved in nutrition policies implementation.
Publication on the project in "Food and Nutrition Bulletin"
The SMILING project was the topic of a publication in Food and Nutrition Bulletin , vol. 34, no. 2 (sup.), "The SMILING project: A North–South–South collaborative action to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in women and young children in Southeast Asia" Berger J. et al
SMILING outcomes at the Micronutrient Forum Conference
Two presentations at the Micronutrient Forum Global Conference (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2014) will be about specically SMILING. Many researchers from the project will present outcomes related to the project.
The SMILING project is financially supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (GA: 289616)