How superbananas can heal the world | James Dale | TEDxSouthBank

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Vitamin A deficiency kills more people globally than HIV Aids and Malaria combined. Can superbananas change this? 

Distinguished Professor James Dale is leading a major international Global Health Project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop biofortified bananas for East Africa. The first GM banana field trials for this project and for disease resistance commenced in the second half of 2008 in Australia.

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