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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

, Coordinator

, 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).