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ILRI News on nutrition

19 Oct 2020

Celebrating Open Access Week 2020 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health

International Open Access Week is an opportunity to raise awareness about open access publishing of research outputs to enable their universal online accessibility. Research outputs are wide-ranging and include articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, book chapters, conference proceedings,...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

ILRI News

09 Sep 2020

Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children

Ethiopian chicken farmer with her children (photo credit: ILRI). ILRI animal geneticist/breeder Tadelle Dessie is one of many authors of a new paper in the Journal of Nutrition with partners from Harvard and Purdue universities and Boston College, in the US; the Food, Agriculture and Natural...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

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Publications on nutrition

Presentation

Published2020

Better lives through livestock: ILRI in SADC Region

Book Chapter

Published2021

Food security and nutrition

Poster

Published2020

Multi-sectoral and integrated nutrition-sensitive interventions for enhanced nutrition security

Poster

Published2020

Rwanda government's livestock asset transfer program 'Girinka' is associated with improved child nutrition

Book Chapter

Published2020

The role of animal-source foods in sustainable, ethical, and optimal human diets

Report

Published2020

Animal welfare in agriculture, nutrition and health

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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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ILRI News on nutrition

Celebrating Open Access Week 2020 with a focus on ILRI’s open access research on animal and human health

How viable are schemes to give poor people making and selling ‘informal’ milk greater market access?

Chicken intervention in Ethiopian households improved the nutrition and growth of young children

Publications on nutrition

Better lives through livestock: ILRI in SADC Region

Food security and nutrition

Multi-sectoral and integrated nutrition-sensitive interventions for enhanced nutrition security

Rwanda government's livestock asset transfer program 'Girinka' is associated with improved child nutrition

The role of animal-source foods in sustainable, ethical, and optimal human diets

Animal welfare in agriculture, nutrition and health

ILRI Projects on nutrition

Agriculture to nutrition Ethiopia project

MoreMilk: Making the most of milk

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