Also, people used to white rice may not want to change to yellow rice. Action Aid organised a Citizens' Jury in Southern India this year. Scientists, government officials, NGOs and biotech corporations sat down with the farmers to discuss a full range of issues on food security, and agreed that farmers, with practical knowledge, should be actively involved in field trials. Shetty also points out that clean water and sanitation is important, because if people have diarrhoea they cannot absorb the vitamins. Gordon Conway agrees that there are no magic solutions, but says that all avenues need to be explored.
Vitamin A is by far the most important of the deficiencies.
We're talking about millions of children dying because of Vitamin A deficiency. If you don't have QuickTime, use the link below and download Quicktime from the Apple site.