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ILRI News on nutrition

30 Jun 2020

Using virtual communication tools to support northern Kenya partners during the COVID-19 pandemic

An aerial view of the Oldonyiro Livestock Market in Isiolo County (photo credit: USAID/Mwangi Kirubi). Update from the livestock component of the AVCD program Over the last three months (April – June), the livestock value chain (LVC) team of the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program...

Muthoni NjiruCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

ILRI clippings

29 Jun 2020

Australian body calls for RENEWABLE FOOD (aka ‘regenerative agriculture’ or ‘circular food economies’) as well as renewable energy

Pablo Picasso, La Soupe, 1902. (From a description about this work by 1000Museums : ‘The older woman appears physically weighed down by her destitution. She stands, arms stretched out, holding a bowl of soup; a small child also holding the same bowl. A question is conveyed: is she giving the soup...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

AgHealth blog

22 May 2020

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health publishes 2019 annual report

The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) has just released its 2019 annual report, highlighting activities and accomplishments from its five research flagships, cross-cutting work on gender and equity, and partnerships that have led to research outcomes in over 20...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

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Publications on nutrition

Poster

Published2020

Livestock interventions in low-income countries: A theory of change for improved nutrition

Journal Article

Published2020

Food security in rural Burkina Faso: The importance of consumption of own-farm sourced food versus purchased food

Journal Article

Published2020

Severe below-maintenance feed intake increases methane yield from enteric fermentation in cattle

Presentation

Published2019

Assessing the inclusion of livestock sector in NAIPs: Preliminary case study of Uganda, Mozambique, Kenya, Rwanda and Nigeria

Extension Material

Published2019

How to feed lactating cows

Presentation

Published2020

Using participatory system dynamics approaches to evaluate the nutritional sensitivity of a producer-facing agricultural intervention in India and Bangladesh

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ILRI Projects on nutrition

May 2018May 2020

Market Intervention for Nutritional Improvement (MINI) Project

MINI is one of ILRI’s flagship projects in which the use of participatory system dynamics (SD) models has been applied in the context of analyzing agri-food and livestock value chains. This approach facilitates a mediated discussion with 10-15 value chain actors in a series of focus group meetings...

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...

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