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By Lowell J. Fuglie-(image)

Lowell Fuglie on UMTV

The advantages of using Moringa in
malnutrition prevention programs


I n the African context
, Moringa Oleifera is a very simple and readily available tool to help prevent malnutrition. It is a drought-resistant and fast growing tree which is present in nearly all tropical and sub-tropical countries for names of Moringa ( Moringa Oleifera ) in West African countries). Its edible leaves are already an occasional food source in West Africa regions and appear at the end of the dry season: a time when other greens are in short supply.

As a source of good nutrition, its leaves are considered the best of tropical legumes with its high quantities of vitamin A and significant quantities of vitamin C, calcium, iron, protein, potassium, magnesium, selenium, zinc and a good balance of all the essential amino acids.





Also, the leaves can be easily dried into Powder form for use as a nutritional supplement for sauces or as an addition to infant weaning foods.

Moringa leaves can be produced intensively in a family-size small garden. The seeds can be spaced as closely as ten centimeters apart. When the plants reach a height of a meter, they can be cut down to a height of 30 centimeters.

The leaves can be stripped from the stems and used to prepared sauces or dried for long-term storage as a nutritious food additive, and the stems fed to livestock.

The stumps survive the harvest and will re-sprout, allowing another harvest in as little as fifty days. Using this technique, a Moringa garden can continually produce green matter for several years with very little labor required.

As the West Africa representative for an  American non-profit development Organization  over a period of seventeen years, I did extensive research and field trials to test the Nutritional value  of adding Moringa leaves, in dried form, as a nutritious food supplement for women and their children.

Results were conclusive. Moringa
demonstrated tremendous value in helping moderately malnourished women and children rapidly return to good health simply by the addition of Moringa leaf powder to their daily meals.

These results received considerable publicity, including the publication of a book in English and in French with the support of the :

'Technical Center for Agricultural and rural Cooperation(CTA)in The Netherlands; the sponsorship of an international seminar in Tanzania; the development of strategies for improving livestock nutrition in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal and The Gambia' ;

and the creation of a network of researchers, marketers and development project practitioners throughout the third world.

Some of my work on Moringa was featured on the front page of theLos Angeles Times, on page 2 of the International Herald Tribune, as a chapter in an UNESCO book on Best Practices on Indigenous Knowledge , as a documentary aired on the Discovery Health Channel, on the National Public Radio, and on many other sites.



Resources :

Kiva , Green Seeds, Moringa News, Tree of life, Moringa Research, Sanford Research,
Merits of Moringa, Moringa and HIV, Lowell Fuglie Zoominfo, Wi.sdm Lowell Fuglie , Youtube,
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