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ILRI News on nutrition

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

ILRI News

12 May 2020

East African dairy under COVID-19: How is this vibrant sub-sector faring? Join us for a webinar 28 May

Albertina is business savy. Domingos has a knack for operations— together this husband and wife are using complementary strengths to run a successful dairy business in Mozambique. Their dairy operation is supported by Land O’Lakes Venture37 through the USDA-supported MERCADO program. (Photo credit...

Susan MacMillanTeam Leader, Communications, Awareness and Advocacy

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

14 Apr 2020

ILRI develops framework for integrating gender in livestock genetic improvement programs

Woman herding goats in Nagar Village, Tonk District, Rajasthan, India (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Livestock genetic improvement programs help farmers to enhance their productivity through improved breeds. But resear ch shows that men and women farmers use and interact with livestock in...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

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Publications on nutrition

Journal Article

Published2020

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

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

Report

Published2019

Integrating gender and nutrition into the project planning cycle of food safety research in the pork value chain

Poster

Published2019

"Our food may not be very safe because nowadays everything uses chemicals": Women’s perceptions of food safety and nutrition in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Conference Paper

Published2019

Nutrition outcomes in women and children in rural farming households

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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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