A market assessment was conducted in Burkina Faso in 2017 using the Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit (FACT) methodology. It was carried out across eight market hubs strategically selected in different regions of the country.
Currently, there are limited data available on the performance of the fortification programmes in Burkina Faso since they began. To contribute to filling this critical information gap, a cross-sectional market survey was conducted across eight market hubs strategically selected in different regions of the country.
In an effort to explore the potential of new food vehicles for large-scale food fortification in West Africa, GAIN took advantage of two FACT surveys conducted in West Africa that measured quality, coverage and/or consumption of mandatorily fortified foods, for exploring the potential of other industry manufactured foods for fortification.
Osgood-Zimmerman and colleagues just published an article in Nature that, for the first time, provides high-resolution maps of child growth failure (stunting, wasting, and underweight) across Africa. They mapped data from over 1 million children from 51 countries at a 5×5 km resolution as well as at the largest administrative subdivision from 2000 to 2015.
