Tags: nutrition

ILRI News on nutrition

07 Jun 2022

ILRI/livestock science leader named to EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commission

Namukolo Covic , a Zambian agricultural nutritionist and the director general’s representative to Ethiopia at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), has been appointed one of 23 EAT-Lancet 2.0 Commissioners. These distinguished scientific experts come from 19 countries and represent...

Susan MacMillanILRI Emeritus Fellow

AgHealth blog

04 May 2022

ILRI scientist Delia Grace wins 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for research innovation

We congratulate Delia Grace , professor of food safety systems at the Natural Resources Institute and joint appointed scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), on winning the 2022 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award in the research innovation category. Delia Grace is a...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

AgHealth blog

11 Feb 2022

Experts call for equitable food system transformation to tackle global health challenges of the 21st century

Transformation of food systems is key to addressing malnutrition, non-communicable diseases, climate change and other global health challenges of the 21st century, a new research study says. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Jan 2022), presents a synthesis of the...

Tezira LoreCommunication Specialist

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Publications on nutrition

Book Chapter

Published1996

Integrating simulation models to optimise nutrition and management for dairy farms: a methodology

Book Chapter

Published2016

Impacts of ALRMPII on Child Nutritional Status

ILRI Projects on nutrition

Jan 2021Dec 2023

Inclusive red meat value chains for women and youth in Eastern and Southern Africa (K'LUSA)

Most rural households in Zimbabwe and Malawi depend on smallholder agriculture and livestock husbandry to meet food and nutritional security goals and improve their livelihoods. However, due to the low level of public and private investment in the livestock sector, livestock-keeping households...

Aug 2020Aug 2025

Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab will develop local capacity in Kenya to carry out laboratory-based animal health research to improve East Coast fever vaccines and diagnostics and conduct social and economic evaluations of the effects of animal health interventions on human...