Extending our reach:
Symposium on improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships
APRIL 25-26, 2019 | Hotel Yak and Yeti, KATHMANDU, NEPAL
Symposium Summary April 2019 (PDF)
PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
Introduction
In collaboration with national partners in the focal countries, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems conducts annual Global Nutrition Symposia as one of two premier multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing platforms for participatory priority development, dialogue, and research to development linkages. This ensures that the Lab’s research has practical relevance and leads to solid developmental impacts. The event is held in a different country every year, and the Lab is delighted that the Government of Nepal, specifically the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, agreed to host the event in Kathmandu this year.
Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, supports more than twenty Innovation Labs that leverage research partnerships between US universities and foreign institutions to improve food and nutrition security, agriculture-led economic growth and resilience in target countries.
Since one of the shared goals of the Innovation Labs is to improve human nutrition, The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition has been holding an annual Scientific Symposium on Agriculture - Nutrition pathways in Nepal with key stakeholders for the last nine years. Similarly, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems has been holding Global Nutrition Symposia for the last three years in different countries, and these focus on increasing production and consumption of animal-source foods to improve nutrition, health and incomes. These symposia align with the vision of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems to sustainably intensify smallholder livestock systems in order to improve the nutrition, health, livelihoods and incomes of the poor.
This Symposium will bring together ministers and other key policy-makers, researchers, public and private sector extensionists, producer organizations, as well as university administrators, to discuss the global relevance of bridging research to extension and agriculture to nutrition linkages for improving human nutrition and livestock production. We will share promising examples of how partnerships between researchers and various types of extension and advisory service providers can increase the production and consumption of nutritious animal-source foods (ASF). Together, we will develop actionable strategies to bridge gaps to improve nutrition, health, and economic outcomes especially for women and children. The Symposium will highlight pathways for connecting research and extension services provided by the public and private sectors as well as civil society in different countries to foster more effective research delivery and diffusion through partnership with extension and advisory services in developing countries.
Symposium Objectives and Outcomes:
At the completion of the symposium, participants will
- understand the importance of invigorating partnerships between research and extension for improving human nutrition and livestock productivity;
- obtain a broad global perspective of different experiences to achieve this goal;
- jointly identify innovative strategies and mechanisms, public-private pathways to better connect livestock research with extension and livestock production with human nutrition;
- develop country-focused action plans to enhance human nutrition through better research to extension linkages.
Presentations
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Speaker |
Presentation |
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Master of Ceremony: Ms. Neena Joshi, Heifer International Nepal Chair: Dr. Bimal Kumar Nirmal, Director General of Department of Livestock Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) |
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| Moderator: Dr. Shibani Ghosh, Associate Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition, Tufts University |
Setting the Stage: Animal source foods consumption and safety to improve human nutrition Role of agriculture in achieving human nutrition outcomes: Focus on livestock and animal source foods |
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Dr. Laurie C. Miller, Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine; and Adjunct Professor, Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University |
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| Dr. Ahmed Kablan, Senior Nutrition Research Adviser USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security | |
| Dr. Silvia Alonso, Senior Scientists, International Livestock Research Institute | Animal-human interactions and the nutrition dimension: Considerations for agricultural/veterinary extension services and beyond |
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Chair: Kristen MacNaughtan |
Frameworks and definitions Chair: Kristen MacNaughtan, EAB members Diversity is a key strength of extension and agricultural advisory services around the world. Multiple systems, models, and approaches have been created and/or adopted to meet the educational needs of a variety of audiences and contexts. This same strength can also transform into a challenge when researchers, extensionists, and other stakeholders need to communicate with each other. This session will provide an overview and definitions of the main systems, models, approaches, and other topics within extension required to better understand its scope, organizational structure, and linkages necessary for collaboration. |
| Dr. Sebastian Galindo, Assistant Professor Department of Agricultural Education and Communications, University of Florida |
Introducing a framework for describing research and extension systems: Key definitions & examples |
| Dr. Brian Myers, Head, Department of Agricultural Education and Communications, University of Florida |
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Chair: Kristen MacNaughtan |
Sharing models for improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships - Country level and systems perspective Chair: Kristen MacNaughtan, EAB member |
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Dr. Saqib Mukhtar, Associate Dean for Extension, UF/IFAS Extension |
USA The origins of the U.S. Land Grant system, how it continues to evolve, and how it serves the increasing demand for food and nutrition education |
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Dr. Nick Place, Dean and Director, UF/IFAS Extension |
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| Dr. Sam Churl Kim, Associate Professor Department of Animal Science, Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea |
Korea Cooperative extension program in South Korea: The case of Hanwoo (Korean native beef cattle) in Gyeongnam province |
| Dr. Mahesh Chander, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Livestock Extension |
India Extension interventions for improving livestock production towards better human nutrition: The case of India |
| Dr. Joseph Mureithi, Deputy Director General (Livestock), Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization, KALRO, Kenya |
Kenya Effective livestock research and extension partnerships: The case of community based participatory approaches for upscaling livestock technologies in Kenya |
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Chair: Dr. Harinder Makkar |
Sharing models for improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships – Case studies
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Ms. Neena Joshi, Director of Programs, Heifer International Nepal |
Examples from Heifer International Nepal |
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Dr. Laurie C. Miller, Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine; and Adjunct Professor, Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University |
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| Doj Raj Khanal, Senior Animal Health Researcher, Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) |
Examples from the Department of Livestock Services and the Nepal Agricultural Research Council Sharing models for improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships: Case studies |
| Dr. Bimal Kumar Nirmal, Director General, DLS |
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Prof. Xusheng Guo, Langzhou University, P. R. China |
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| Dr. Tek Gurung, NARC, and Iain Wright, Deputy Director General for Research and Development–Integrated Sciences, ILRI, and EAB member | Wrap up for the day |
Friday, April 26
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Chair: Iain Wright, Deputy Director General for Research and Development–Integrated Sciences, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and EAB member |
Improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships – Examples from the focus countries of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems |
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Panel sessions with high level ministry and academic representatives from the focal countries debating the following questions: |
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| 9:00 am |
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| 9:05 am |
Nepal & Cambodia Moderator: Dr. Varijaksha Panicker Padmakumar, ILRI Panelists:
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| 9:30 am |
Ethiopia & Rwanda Moderator: Dr. Emily Ouma, Senior Scientist, ILRI Panelists:
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9:50 am |
Burkina Faso & Niger Moderator: Dr. Moctar Karimou, Mercy Corps Niger, and Dr. Larbi Asamoah, EAB member Panelists:
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10:15 am |
Coffee and tea break |
| Session VI: 10:40 am |
Developing actionable strategies Chair: Dr. Joyce Turk, EAB member |
| 10:45 am |
Break out into parallel thematic groups
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| 11:45 am |
Working group presentations and discussions in plenum Summary statement of actionable strategies from each thematic area (15 minutes each), then time for questions and comments from the audience. |
| 12:30 pm |
Lunch break |
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Session VII: 1:30 pm |
Policy initiatives Chairs: Dr. Bimal Kumar Nirmal, DLS |
| 1:30 pm |
Panel discussion Panelists: Representatives of each country. Government representative comments first and university representative responds Which two of the following options are the most critical areas requiring policy change in your country and why?
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| 2:30 pm |
The way forward Chair: Dr. Nick Place, UF/IFAS Statements from country representatives about what they recommend policy makers and key stakeholders should change based on what they learned here |
| Session VIII: 3:00 pm |
Closing
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Previous Symposiums
Review the presentations from previous symposia:
| 2018 Global Nutrition Symposium | 2017 Global Nutrition Symposium |
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For questions, contact: livestock-lab@ufl.edu
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