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ILRI News on nutrition

16 Jan 2020

The meat wars: A backlash is occurring on the backlash to meat dietary recommendations published late last year

Roy Lichenstein, Standing Rib (via Wikiart). On 19 Nov 2019, guidelines were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that caused a backlash, and now a backlash on the backlash is occurring. The abstract to the original 2019 Annals article, titled Unprocessed red meat and processed meat...

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10 Jan 2020

Susan MacMillan

Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people

A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously pushes back against some of the on-going anti-livestock rhetoric appearing in Western media. The new paper has four big messages: Meat, offal, milk, eggs and fish are vital to—and missing from—the...

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31 Dec 2019

Susan MacMillan

On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more

Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Tufts University analyses the costs of adopting the ‘universal reference diet’ recommended for both human and planetary health by the EAT-Lancet Commission (Willett et al.,...

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Publications on nutrition

Book Chapter

Published2019

ILRI’s BecA-Hub is using cutting-edge science to help Africa achieve food and nutrition security

Conference Paper

Published2019

Nutrition outcomes in women and children in rural farming households

Conference Paper

Published2019

Feed and nutrition research for development and feed technology entry point in the smallholder poultry systems

Brief

Published2019

Enabling locally relevant planning for sustainable livestock sector development: The CLEANED approach

Presentation

Published2019

Measuring empowerment in agricultural development projects using WEAI and WELI

Presentation

Published2019

Quantitative and qualitative tools: Friends or foes?

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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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