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ILRI News on nutrition

21 Nov 2019

Livestock in context: A plea for intellectual rigor and collegial disagreement

Lawrence Haddad, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and 2018 World Food Prize co-winner, gave two presentations at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference held 11-13 November in Brisbane, Australia. The first, titled Let them eat meat, was covered in an...

10 Nov 2019

Susan MacMillan

ILRI holds a livestock symposium at the International Tropical Agriculture Conference this week

Lindsay Falvey and Shirley Tarawali, board chair and assistant director general, respectively, of the Africa-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), will chair and facilitate a 2-hour symposium—'Sustainable, healthy diets for all: Tomorrow’s livestock science’—at the International...

24 Oct 2019

David Aronson

ILRI supports the United Nations’ ‘Decade of Action on Nutrition’, 2016–2025

The following is ILRI's statement of support to the United Nations' Decade of Action on Nutrition, 2016–2025. Continue reading →...

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Publications on nutrition

Presentation

Published on2018

Assessing knowledge, beliefs and practices related to the consumption of sheep and goat meat in Senegal

Presentation

Published on2018

Livestock-derived foods and the first 1000 days: The essential role of livestock-derived foods in the nutrition of mothers and infants

Book Chapter

Published on2019

Urban livestock keeping: Leveraging for food and nutrition security

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ILRI Projects on nutrition

Agriculture to nutrition Ethiopia project

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) project seeks to help the African continent broaden its agricultural focus from ‘eating for hunger’ to ‘eating for health’. It focuses on how agriculture can deliver positive nutrition outcomes for smallholder...

Oct 2016Sep 2021

MoreMilk: Making the most of milk

The MoreMilk project aims to generate research evidence on how informal milk markets can be leveraged to improve nutrition and health, especially in peri-urban settings. The overall objective of the project is to improve child health and nutrition outcomes through milk consumption. The project will...

Jan 2017Dec 2019

Enhancing milk quality and consumption for improved income and nutrition in Rwanda

Objectives Generate evidence on interventions aimed at improving dairy income and consumption of milk in Rwanda. Specifically, the project will; evaluate the impact of a nutrition education intervention on ASF consumption and nutrition outcomes among children (12-23 months) and pregnant and...

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