Events We Hosted

Click on event titles below to view information on each event and video links where available.

• Inclusive Investment Opportunities for Unleashing the Power of the Pastoral Sector

  This Pan-African convening brings together representatives of pastoralist communities, prospective investors, social entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers to pave the way for increasing investments in the pastoral livestock sector.

  Learn more about Inclusive Investment Opportunities for Unleashing the Power of the Pastoral Sector

• Meeting the Challenge of Reducing Enteric CH4 Emissions from Sub-Saharan Africa

  Workshop: Meeting the Challenge of Reducing Enteric CH4 Emissions from Sub-Saharan Africa

  This workshop was held on June 5, 2022 at the conference on Greenhouse Gas & Animal Agriculture (GGAA) 2022, Orlando.

  Speakers included:

  • Adesogan Adegbola, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems, University of Florida
  • Ermias Kebreab, University of California-Davis
  • Hayden Montgomery, Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases
  • Mulubrhan Balehegn, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems, University of Florida
  • Eneyew Nigussie, Natural Resources Institute Finland
  • Claudia Arndt, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya
  • Ouermi Oualyou, Environmental Institute for Agricultural Research - Burkina Faso (INERA)

  At this interactive workshop, experts gathered to: 1) Discuss findings on emissions of local cattle and small ruminant breeds; 2) Explore different livestock systems scenarios for reducing enteric CH4 emissions; and 3) Highlight measures that would be most applicable to mitigate emissions while supporting and possibly improving livestock productivity.

• Maximizing Your Research Impact

  This series of 6 videos were orginally presented by our Local Capacity Development team as webinars in 2022 on March 25; April 8, 29; May 13; June 10, 24.

  They feature presentations by Dr. Terry Kit Selfe from the University of Florida Libraries. Topics covered were:

  • Introduction to Research Impact
  • ORCID and Friends
  • Publish, Do Not Perish
  • From First Draft to Published Article
  • Avoiding Predatory Journals
  • Managing Your Researcher Profile

   

• Not so dangerous? New research about aflatoxin M1 is revealed.

  Click here: Not so dangerous? New research about aflatoxin M1 is revealed

  • Recorded May 10, 2022

  In addition to a video, there are related resources:

  1. Research Brief: Aflatoxin M1 Causes Minimal Global Cancer Risk
  2. Blog: Milk is safer than we thought
  3. Infographic: Milk is Safer Than We Thought
• Future of Food Forum 2022: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Food Systems

  Future of Food Forum. Video from March 3, 2022. Program is available here. 

  

   

• 2021 Innovation Platform Meetings

  Our Innovation Platforms are held annually. The 2021 Innovation Platform meetings were held virtually. The main purpose of these meetings was to share key research results to date and explain plans for future research. Click on a country of interest for more information and to download the 2021 program's materials. 

  • Nepal: March 16
  • Ethiopia: March 23
  • Niger: March 25
  • Rwanda: March 31
  • Burkina Faso: April 7

   

• Webinar: Collaboration Opportunities for Minority Serving Institutions

  Click here: Collaboration Opportunities for Minority Serving Institutions

  • Recorded April 16, 2021

  The main parts of this presentation are:

  1. Introduce Phase I research and local capacity development achievements
  2. Raise awareness among faculty at Minority Serving Institutions about the upcoming funding opportunities
  3. Raise awareness about the opportunity to serve as reviewer on the Technical Evaluation Panel
  4. Describe the RFA process and eligibility criteria.
• Webinar: Preparing for the RFA's Release

  Click here: Preparing for the RFA's Release

  • Recorded April 14, 2021

  The webinar aims to outline the following procedural aspects:
  1. Request for Applications (RFA) process, eligibility, and compliance aspects
  2. Budget requirements and funding process
  3. Organizational requirements to become a LSIL subawardorganization
  4. Financial reporting requirements

• Webinar: Research on Human Health, Food Safety, Diets & Nutrition

  Click here: Research on Human Health, Food Safety, Diets & Nutrition

  • Recorded April 9, 2021

  Featuring:

  1. Phase I – Highlights of Human Health and Nutrition Research
  2. Phase II – Priority research areas for the Human Health, Food Safety, Diets & Nutrition Area of Inquiry
  3. Request for applications for Phase II research – Process and eligibility

• The Carter Conference
  • Shifting Momentum in African Agriculture through Research and Technologies: SMART Agriculture | SMART Growth | SMART Kids
  • December 10-11, 2020
• Webinar: Lessons in Working Towards Global Eradication of Peste des Petits Ruminants

  Click here: Recorded Webinar

  • Recorded December 2, 2020

• Webinar Series: The Enabling Environment for Animal-Source Food Market Systems — Lessons from the Field

  Click here: The Enabling Environment for Animal-Source Food Market Systems — Lessons from the Field

  • Recorded November 5, 12, and 19 in 2020

  Featuring:

  • Supply-Side Factors
  • Marketing Factors
  • Financial Services Factors

• 2020 Virtual General Meeting

  Visit this webpage for details about the event.

  • September 28-30, 2020
  • This meeting gathers administrators and the leaders of research projects in the target countries.
  • This Annual General Meeting was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Livestock, Campylobacter and child nutrition: findings from the formative research of the CAGED study in rural Ethiopia

  Video & Background: Livestock, Campylobacter and child nutrition: findings from the formative research of the CAGED study in rural Ethiopia

  • Recorded June 2, 2020

  Featuring:

  • Dr. Arie Hendrik Havelaar, principal investigator of the CAGED study, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems
  • Dr. Sarah McKune, a co-principal investigators of the CAGED study, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

• Webinar: Our approach to technical monitoring and evaluation at the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

  Video: Our approach to technical monitoring and evaluation at the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

  • Recorded June 1, 2020

  Featuring:

  • Dr. Sebastian Galindo, Technical Monitoring and Evaluation Supervisor, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems
  • Dr. Erica Odera, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Specialist, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

• Webinar: From Herds to Households: Unpacking the challenges and benefits around animal-source foods

  Video: From Herds to Households: Unpacking the challenges and benefits around animal-source foods

  • Moderator: Ms. Ladd, Senior Technical Director for Nutrition, ACDI/VOCA 
  • Geoffrey E. Dahl, Harriet B. Weeks Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida
  • Sarah McKune, Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Global Health and the Center for African Studies, University of Florida
  • Recorded November 18, 2019

• Webinar: Managing Aflatoxin Risk: Proper sampling and analytical techniques to ensure accurate and defensible results

  Watch this presentation on Managing Aflatoxin Risk: Proper sampling and analytical techniques to ensure accurate and defensible results.

  • Features Dr. Timothy Herrman
  • Recorded June 12, 2019  

• Lecture: Food safety and antimicrobial resistance research: A One Health perspective
  • Video of lecture: http://media.epi.ufl.edu/Hung-Ngyuen-7-26.mp4 
  • July 26, 2019, University of Florida
  • by Dr. Hung Nguyen, Regional Representative, ILRI
• Symposium: Ensuring children’s cognitive and physical development through animal source foods

  This event, Symposium: Ensuring children’s cognitive and physical development through animal source foods, was held in Washington, D.C. on June 5, 2019.

  Symposium Objectives:

  1. Explore the realities, implications, and impacts of chronic malnutrition, which leads to stunting and may reduce cognitive and physical development leading to lifelong economic impacts.
  2. Examine the evidence that consumption of animal-source foods reduces chronic malnutrition.  
  3. Identify critical factors that must be addressed to ensure the success of animal source-food interventions to reduce chronic malnutrition.
  4. Review the availability, access and affordability of animal-source foods as well as strategic messaging to increase their consumption.
  5. Discuss how the US Government and other donors can support integration of animal-source food consumption into national policy implementation.
  6. Discuss how private sector partnerships and platforms can impact the availability, affordability, and safety of animal-source foods.
• Webinar Series: Library Access for Success: Finding Literature for Livestock Research

  

  Livestock researchers need to find high-quality scientific literature quickly, and this need has been repeatedly emphasized by the international researchers and stakeholders affiliated with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. Fortunately, specialized librarians from the University of Florida are here to help.

  This webinar series is about conducting efficient and effective searches for scientific literature, using the most current and advanced online resources available in Africa and Asia. We encourage viewing by stakeholders of the Innovation Lab and especially by all research project Principal Investigators, their affiliated students, and librarians from our many partner institutions. Resources in these webinars are tailored to the targeted countries of Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda

  Featured speakers:

  • Michelle Leonard, Associate University Librarian, University of Florida
  • Dr. Lenny Rhine, University Librarian Emeritus, University of Florida
• 2019 Annual General Meeting
  • April 23-24, 2019
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • This meeting gathers administrators and the leaders of research projects in the target countries.
• 2019 Global Nutrition Symposium
  • Theme: Extending our reach: Symposium on improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships
  • Kathmandu, Nepal
  • April 25-26, 2019
• One Health International Symposium on Risk Communication in Resource-Limited Countries

  Find presentations and videos from the One Health International Symposium on Risk Communication in Resource-Limited Countries.

  This event was co-sponsored by the University of Florida's:

  • Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems
  • One Health Center of Excellence
  • Center for Stress Resilient Agriculture
  • Center for African Studies     

  It took place at:      

  • University of Florida's Reitz Union: The Chamber
  • Monday, November 19, 2018
  • Starting at 9:00 a.m.

  This group is open to the University of Florida community. Read about the One Health International Symposium and its agenda.

• Webinar Series: Gender and Nutrition in Livestock Systems
  • May and June 2018
  • View videos and more information on these webinars
  • The webinars were also broadcast on Facebook Live and stored on our Facebook page
• Livestock, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Child Growth: Exploring the Complex Underlying Causes of Child Stunting
  • March 1, 2018
  • Location: University of Florida
  • View video archive of this event
  • Sponsors at UF: Center for African Studies, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems
• 2018 Annual General Meeting
  • January 22-23, 2018
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • This meeting gathers administrators and the leaders of research projects in the target countries.
• 2018 Global Nutrition Symposium
  • Theme: The Missing Link: Increasing Availability of Animal-source Foods Through Greater Production and Marketing of Quality Feeds
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • View video archives of this event
• Panel: Expanding UF’s Horizons to Improve Nutrition in Asia and Africa
  • Tuesday, November 14, 8:30-10 a.m.
  • University of Florida, The Hub’s International Center
  • Download PDF: Expanding UF’s Horizons to Improve Nutrition in Asia and Africa
• Open House
  • Tuesday, October 17, 3:00-6:00pm U.S. Eastern Time
  • University of Florida, Department of Animal Sciences, Room 125
  • Open to UF faculty, staff, and students. Come and learn how you can get involved with the LSIL and celebrate our 2-year anniversary.
• Lecture: Sustainable Livestock Insurance for Pastoralists in East Africa: The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) Experience
  • October 18, 2017, University of Florida
  • Dr. Francesco Fava, ILRI
• Lecture: Climate smart crops and livestock at multiple scales in uncertain futures
  • May 8, 2017
  • Dr. Philip Thornton, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
• 2017 Annual General Meeting
  • March 27-29, 2017
  • University of Florida
  • This meeting is for the Principal Investigators (PI) or co-PIs of the various research projects in the LSIL target countries.
• 2017 Global Nutrition Symposium
  • Theme: Nurturing development: Improving human nutrition with animal-source foods
  • March 30, 2017
  • Reitz Union Auditorium, University of Florida campus
  • Video recordings available.
• Lecture: Rinderpest Eradication: Technical and Social Innovations

  • December 7, 2016
  • Dr. Jeffrey Mariner, Tufts University

• Lecture: Animal-source foods for nutrition, health, and welfare of infants, children, and pregnant/lactating women
  • May 31, 2016
  • Dr. Lora L. Iannotti, Washington University in St. Louis

Events We Participated In

Click on event titles below to view information on each event. Links may lead to external websites.

• University of Florida Commencement

  Adegbola Adesogan's speech for Summer 2022 commencement ceremonies

  "Value People"

  Click to watch this inspiring speech from our director, Dr. Gbola Adesogan, delivered on August 5, 2022.

  https://news.ufl.edu/2022/08/summer-commencement-speech/

• ADIS22: African Diaspora Investment Symposium

  ADIS22: Changing the Landscape of Agriculture in Africa

  This event on March 23, 2022 featured our director and other experts addressing this question: What are some opportunities, funding avenues, and best practices for shaping the future of the agricultural sector in Africa?
  

  • Watch video on YouTube

  

• Livestock and Climate Smart Agriculture Innovations (on Agrilinks)

  This USAID event on November 16, 2021 covered “Livestock and Climate Smart Agriculture Innovations” and has an archive here on Agrilinks. The video recording is available on YouTube.

• World Veterinary Association Virtual Seminar -- Food Security

  This event, World Veterinary Association Virtual Seminar on Food Security, was held on April 29, 2021. It featured our deputy director, Saskia Hendrickx, speaking about "Contributions of animal-source foods to food security." Viewing it online requires a free registration.

• Potential and options for irrigated fodder production shared with policymakers and practitioners in Ethiopia

  This event was held in December 2, 2020 and organized by the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI). It included opening remarks by our director, Dr. Adegbola Adesogan.

  • Webinar: Potential and options for irrigated fodder production shared with policymakers and practitioners in Ethiopia
• Climate Conscious Chats

  This event was held in November 2020 by these partners: 

  

  It featured our director, Dr. Adegbola Adesogan, discussing food livestock. Find the event's video below, or at https://youtu.be/XHbgHdg7UoE

• American Dairy Science Association

  This event was held June 26, 2019 in Cinncinattti, Ohio as part of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) Annual Meeting:

  • MILK symposium: Improving Milk Production, Quality, and Safety in Developing Countries

  As a result of this symposium, the Journal of Dairy Science published a Special Issue in November 2020.

• Aligning the Food System for Improved Nutrition in Animal Source Foods

  This event was held in May 2019 at the University of California, Davis.

  Find the event's presentations and videos at https://nasfc.ucdavis.edu/presentations

  Session 2 featured our director, Dr. Adegbola Adesogan.

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_{This work was funded in whole or part by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Food Security under Agreement # AID-OAA-L-15-00003 as part of Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. Additional funding was received from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors alone.}