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Four Scientists Share World Food Prize 4科學家共享世界糧食獎

精英翻譯社轉自http://iservice.ltn.com.tw/Service/english/english.php?engno=1007979&day=2016-07-06

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Uganda’s Dr Robert Mwanga, is among a group of four scientists who have won the $250,000 World Food Prize for their effort in fighting malnutrition.

4名科學家因對抗營養不良的努力，而贏得25萬美元獎金的世界糧食獎殊榮，烏干達的姆旺加博士是其中一人。

The four scientists who also include Dr Maria Andrade of Mozambique and Dr Jan Low of Peru – working with the International Potato Centre （CIP） and Dr Howarth Bouis, the founder of HarvestPlus at the International Food Policy Research Institute, were honoured for countering world hunger and malnutrition through biofortification.

這4名科學家還包括與國際馬鈴薯中心（CIP）合作的莫三比克安德拉德博士、秘魯洛伊博士，以及國際糧食政策研究院「HarvestPlust」組織創辦人波伊斯博士，他們透過生物營養強化技術對抗全球饑荒與營養不良。

Dr Mwanga,Uganda CIP country manager, Dr Andrade and Dr Low are credited with developing the single-most successful example of biofortification, the orange-fleshed sweet potato （OFSP）.

CIP烏干達區域經理姆旺加、安德拉德與洛伊博士，在發展生物營養強化最成功的範例：橙肉甘藷（OFSP）上做出貢獻。

Dr Mwanga and Dr Andrade bred the Vitamin A-enriched OFSP using genetic material from CIP and other sources, while Dr Low structured the nutrition studies and programmes that convinced almost two million households in 10 different African countries to plant, buy and consume the nutritionally fortified food.

姆旺加與安德拉德博士利用取自CIP與其他來源的遺傳物質，培育富含維他命A的OFSP，而洛伊博士建構營養研究與方案，說服10個非洲國家的近200萬家庭種植、購買並攝食這些營養增強的糧食。

Dr Bouis on the other hand, has over two decades pioneered the implementation of a multi-institutional approach to biofortification as a global plant breeding strategy that has seen crops such as iron and zinc fortified beans, rice, wheat and pearl millet, along with Vitamin A-enriched cassava, maize and OFSP tested or released in over 40 countries.

另一方面，波伊斯博士20多年來開創生物營養強化的跨機構推展方式，以作為全球農作物培育策略，該成就已可見諸於增強鐵、鋅成分的豆類、稻米、小麥、珍珠粟，以及富含維他命A的樹薯、玉米與OFSP，相關作物已在40多國試種或釋出。