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ILRI Asia blog

Vietnam holds first national dialogue in the lead-up to the UN Food Systems Summit 2021

Around 130 leaders, researchers, investors, government, and private sector representatives in Vietnam gathered in Hanoi and joined virtually to identify solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing the food systems of the country. The feedback from the national partners will be reported to...

Policies, institutions and livelihoods

Social and behaviour change improves milk consumption for Rwanda’s children

A community health worker at one of the counselling visits to pregnant and lactating women with children under five years of age (photo credit: Three Stones International). The level of chronic malnutrition among children in Rwanda remains high. Only 30% of children aged 6-23 months consume a diet...

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Getting beyond ’empty signifiers’—Food policy expert Corinna Hawkes asks: What are food systems for?

All children’s artworks on this page are from Artsonia Art Gallery. In the lead up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, Corinna Hawkes, director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London, UK, asks all of us concerned with ‘food systems’ of one kind or another to think...

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A call for a holistic view of meat eating by Lawrence Haddad, of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Standing Rib, by Roy Lichtenstein, 1962. ‘Eat less meat’ is seen by many as a way of improving the health of the planet and its people. But the issue isn’t quite so simple—at least where the nutrition security and livelihoods of millions of people in the Global South are concerned. A call for a...

Sustainable livestock systems

New study finds that severe undernutrition of cattle increases their methane production

Mazingira Centre An animal trial in the animal respiration chamber at ILRI’s Mazingira Centre (photo credit: ILRI/ Svenja Marquardt). Livestock production generates significant amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for about 65% of the total emissions from agriculture globally. Of...

AVCD program blog

Diversification of diets: a community-led solution that improves nutritional outcomes in Kenya’s pastoral communities

Camels in Isiolo County (photo credit AVCD/Muthoni Njiru). In northern Kenya, thousands of people suffer from acute malnutrition. This dryland region experiences low rainfall, high temperatures and has poor soils, which lead to poor harvests and inadequate pastures for livestock. The region hence...

  • Muthoni Njiru
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US nutrition experts say limits on saturated fats should no longer be recommended to reduce heart disease

Graphic by the Aldas Project , 2012. ‘Following a two-day, DC-based workshop entitled “Saturated Fats: A Food or Nutrient Approach?” a group of leading nutrition scientists, mainly from the U.S., released a consensus statement detailing their findings on the latest research regarding the intake of...

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On vegan diets and brain nutrients—some unsettling research reports in a (surprisingly) still murky research area

Meat and Eggs, by Felix Vallotton, 1918 (via Wikiart). The vegan diet is low in—or, in some cases, entirely devoid of—several important brain nutrients. Could these shortcomings be affecting vegan’s ability to think? ‘. . . The idea that avoiding meat is bad for our brains makes some intuitive...

African Chicken Genetic Gains blog

ATONU-ACGG: Bridging the gap between agriculture and nutrition in Ethiopia (video)

Since 2017 the African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) project and the Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU) projects have implemented joint interventions in Ethiopia to improve nutrition among smallholder farm households. The recent story of Zenebech Abdus already pointed to some of the benefits of the...

  • Ewen Le Borgne