Jan Low, born in 1955, is an American food scientist known for her work helping develop the biofortified orange fleshed sweet potato at the CGIAR International Potato Center, for which she was a co-recipient of the 2016 World Food Prize alongside Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga and Howarth Bouis.
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Defining ContributionHer 2005 study with USAID, the Micronutrient Initiative and the Rockefeller Foundation showed that eating orange fleshed sweet potato cut Vitamin A deficiency in children by 15 percent. 2 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Jan Low
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Jan Low (born 1955) is an American food scientist.
2. World Food Prize: Andrade, Bouis, Low and Mwanga (2016)
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She conducted a major study among poor African communities in 2005-with support from USAID, the Micronutrient Initiative, and the Rockefeller Foundation-demonstrating that consumption of orange fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) led to a 15 percent decline in Vitamin A deficiency in children.
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