Events We Hosted

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

• Virtual General Meeting of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems

  Visit this webpage for details: https://livestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu/events/vgm/

  • September 28-30, 2020

• 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 avilability, 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
• 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 - Video

Events We Participated In

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

• 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.