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ILRI News on nutrition

08 May 2019

On a frugal continent of ‘economic vegetarians’, consuming more meat means longer, healthier lives—Economist

A slaughterhouse in Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). The Economist reports that the future of food lies in Africa. And why that’s a good thing. Read on to find out why. As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives ‘. . . Between 1961 and 2013...

AVCD program blog

27 Mar 2019

Meron Mulatu

Bulk milk chilling and pasteurizing plants great opportunity for cooperatives to run as a business

The AVCD project handed over bulk milk chilling and pasteurizing plants to cooperative societies of Kericho, Homa Bay, Kisumu and Makueni counties of Kenya in mid January and March 2019 (photo credit: ILRI/Meron Mulatu). The Feed the Future Kenya – Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program...

ILRI News

17 Mar 2019

Susan MacMillan

The many gifts of livestock—A view from Kenya

Andrew Tuimur, chief administrative secretary at the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Irrigation and a member of the ILRI Board of Trustees (photo credit: ILRI). The following remarks, published last week by Devex during the fourth meeting of the United Nations Environment...

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Publications on nutrition

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

News Item

Published2018

Study urges supplies of meat, milk and eggs for women and young of poor nations

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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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