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ILRI News on nutrition

23 Dec 2022

National forum seeks resilient food systems to improve nutrition in Ethiopia

Ethiopia Nutrition Leaders Network (ENLN) is a network of food and nutrition professionals in Ethiopia. It aims to support the government's efforts to implement food and nutrition policies, and the Seqota Declaration towards attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ENLN so...

Shahida Hussien communication and engagement officer

ILRI News

14 Nov 2022

ILRI’s Jimmy Smith on bringing science-based nuance and clarity to today’s polarized livestock debates

In the face of increasingly polarized discourse about the place of livestock in sustainable food systems, Jimmy Smith , director general of the CGIAR 's International Livestock Research Institute ( ILRI ), delivered a keynote presentation at this year’s TropAg conference in Brisbane (31 Oct–2 Nov...

ILRI News

03 Nov 2022

SAPLING initiative’s stakeholder consultation proposes priority activities for northwest Vietnam

Livestock is an essential income source for many small-scale farmers in Northwest Vietnam, who may own only a few animals (photo credit: ILRI) In the local Thai dialect in Vietnam’s Northwest Region ‘Chan-henh’ means ‘good and better’. It is also the short name of the CGIAR Initiative on...

Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia

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Publications on nutrition

Journal Article

Published2022

Understanding maternal food choice for preschool children across urban-rural settings in Vietnam

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Presentation

Published2022

Opportunities for Africa to address all forms of malnutrition: How can the UN Nutrition Strategy 2022–2030 contribute?

Presentation

Published2022

Informal markets and nutrition in Africa

Journal Article

Published2022

Training to build nutrition capacity in the Nigerian agricultural sector: Initial assessment and future directions

Presentation

Published2022

Milk safety and child nutrition: Impacts of the MoreMilk project’s training scheme for informal dairy vendors

Presentation

Published2022

Estimating the effects of a change in dairy policy on infants’ milk intake in Kenya and Tanzania

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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...