NutriHarvest will focus on three key areas including VACS, school food programs, and poultry farming for vulnerable communities
HarvestPlus and Cargill are excited to announce the NutriHarvest project, a transformative 36-month initiative. This $3 million multi-year project, supported by Cargill and executed by HarvestPlus, is dedicated to increasing access to nutritious food while impacting more than 119,000 farmers across India, Kenya, Tanzania, and Guatemala, and delivering over 17 million healthy meals.
Globally, around two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, which can lead to serious health conditions such as stunting, night blindness, impaired brain development, weakened immunity, and even death. These deficiencies are often the result of diets heavily reliant on staple crops that lack essential micronutrients. The NutriHarvest project aims to address this challenge by promoting the production and consumption of nutrient-rich foods—such as biofortified staple crops, opportunity nutrient-dense crops, and animal-sourced foods.
The Project is aligned with the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS), which seeks to build a resilient food system grounded in diverse, nutritious, and climate-adapted crops grown in healthy, fertile soils. Together, HarvestPlus and Cargill will increase the production and consumption of nutrient-dense opportunity crops, crops with unrealised potential to improve food and nutrition security in the context of climate change.