Contributors
Anjana Rai:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7430-3424
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SoftwareRole: SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Macha Raja Maharjan: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Helen A. Harris Fry: Role: Formal analysisRole: Writing – review & editing
Parbati K. Chhetri: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Purna Chandra Wasti: Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Naomi M. Saville:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1735-3684
Role: ConceptualizationRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole:
VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Mary Glover-Amengor: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
3
October
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0222903
Affiliations
[1
]
Nutrition Section, UN World Food Programme Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
[2
]
Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London,
England, United Kingdom
[3
]
Department of Food Technology and Quality Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
[4
]
Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, England, United Kingdom
CSIR-Foood Research Institute, GHANA
Author notes
Competing Interests: Four of the authors of this study (AR, MRM, PKC and NMS) were employed as consultants
by United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Nepal during the implementation of this
study and PCW was employed by the Government of Nepal Department of Food Technology
and Quality Control (DTFQC). Although WFP Nepal and the Nepal DFTQC are involved in
the developing Nepal rice fortification programme, neither has any financial interest
in the development or marketing of fortified rice in Nepal. This does not alter our
adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and material.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-19-17897
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222903
PMC ID: 6776338
PubMed ID: 31581257
SO-VID: 7e418ed1-f2c3-4dc5-a086-eb77911c3d85
Copyright © © 2019 Rai et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 25
June
2019
Date
accepted
: 25
August
2019
Page count
Figures: 2,
Tables: 5,
Pages: 17
Funding
This study was funded by United Nations World Food Programme, Nepal (
https://www1.wfp.org/countries/nepal). The funders provided financial and technical support in the study design, data
collection and analysis, decision to publish and preparation of the manuscript.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Organisms
Subject:
Eukaryota
Subject:
Plants
Subject:
Grasses
Subject:
Rice
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Animal Studies
Subject:
Experimental Organism Systems
Subject:
Plant and Algal Models
Subject:
Rice
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Processes
Subject:
Food Consumption
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Physiology
Subject:
Physiological Processes
Subject:
Food Consumption
Subject:
Research and Analysis Methods
Subject:
Research Design
Subject:
Survey Research
Subject:
Surveys
Subject:
People and Places
Subject:
Geographical Locations
Subject:
Asia
Subject:
Nepal
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Agriculture
Subject:
Crop Science
Subject:
Crops
Subject:
Cereal Crops
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Diet
Subject:
Food
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Diet
Subject:
Food
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Diet
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Nutrition
Subject:
Diet
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Agriculture
Subject:
Livestock
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