Global Progress
Maize
New toolkit available
FFI recently launched a communications toolkit with resources to advocate for folic acid fortification of corn masa
When focusing on countries that FFI considers a good opportunity for maize flour fortification (adjusted), the supply of maize increased in 2024 by 3.9 tons (5%), but only a slight portion of that supply (0.5%) was industrially processed. There was no change in the proportion of fortified maize flour, but when compared to the volume of fortified maize flour in 2023, there was a slight increase of 0.4%.
(a) FAO data with additional, openly available data sources.
2023 estimates: 2021 FAOSTAT, Supply Utilization Accounts, Food (element 5141) 2021 Data: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SCL
2024 estimates: 2022 FAOSTAT, Supply Utilization Accounts, Food (element 5141) 2022 Data: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SCL
(b) FFI calculations.
