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ILRI News on nutrition

12 Jul 2019

Inoculating legume plants with nitrogen-fixing rhizobia bacteria improves yields in Ethiopia and could save USD28 million annually in fertilizer costs

A legume farming demonstration plot by the N2Africa project in Pawe, Benshangul Gumuz, Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/Apollo Habtamu). A five-year project that promoted nitrogen fixation through the use of rhizobia bacteria in grain legumes in Ethiopia has helped participating smallholder farmers...

ILRI News

01 Jul 2019

Susan MacMillan

Research approaches required for supporting the empowerment of pastoral dairy women

Maasai woman feeding her child milk (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The especially rich and clearly written results of a livestock-gender-nutrition study in Tanzania deserve wide attention. As the paper’s authors explain: ‘In the context of empowerment and nutrition studies have found that when...

AgHealth blog

10 Jun 2019

Tezira Lore

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2018 annual report

The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) has published its 2018 annual report , highlighting program activities and research results from across A4NH’s five research flagships and five focus countries. These include: research into consumer choices, motives and...

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Publications on nutrition

Journal Article

Published2019

Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania

Journal Article

Published2019

Supplementing tropical cattle for improved nutrient utilization and reduced enteric methane emissions

Report

Published2019

Review of the MoreMilk project module on communication skills and nutrition messages

Journal Article

Published2019

Prioritizing options for multi-objective agricultural development through the Positive Deviance approach

Journal Article

Published2019

Eﬀects of feed intake level on eﬃciency of microbial protein synthesis and nitrogen balance in Boran steers consuming tropical poor-quality forage

News Item

Published2018

Consumption of livestock-derived food low in Africa

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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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