FeFA Girls: Initiative to Tackle Malnutrition
On 15th March, 2019, the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) launched ‘FeFA (Iron for Adolescents) Girls’, an initiative to tackle malnutrition among adolescent girls.
Aim
- To prepare diet-based approaches to improve haemoglobin and blood iron levels in girls.
- To generate scientific evidence on nutritional benefits of groundnut and pearl millet on human health.
Tie-up with Telangana
- The two institutes will work with the Telangana government in rolling out the project.
- FeFA Girls (Iron For Adolescents with Fe being the scientific symbol for iron and, FA, for Adolescent) will target girls in ....
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