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Well-nourished populations, especially women and children, are the central focus of efforts to nurture development and increase resilience of vulnerable households and communities. With more than one in four of its 856 million people undernourished, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the world’s most food-insecure region. In the six African countries where the Innovation Lab works, societies are mostly rural and up to 80% of the populations depend on livestock for their livelihoods. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems adopts an inter-disciplinary and applied research approach that sustainably increases animal-source food production and consumption to improve the nutrition and resilience of the poor, and ultimately contribute to strengthening the social and institutional capacities in these countries.
Focus
The symposium will explore the realities, implications, and impacts of chronic malnutrition, which leads to stunting or reduced height for age. It will emphasize that increased attention should be given to understanding and exploiting the benefits and minimizing risks associated with consumption of animal-source foods (ASF), i.e. meat, cheese, milk and eggs, by the vulnerable, especially children and women. It will also discuss the importance of addressing complementary factors that influence stunting such as Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH), gut health, and animal-source food contaminants like aflatoxin and food borne-pathogens.
Symposium Objectives:
Speaker | Title | |
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Dr. Adegbola Adesogan | Introduction to Symposium | |
Dr. Montague Demment | ||
Dr. Laurie C. Miller | ||
Dr. Lora Iannotti | Effective Pathways towards Reducing Chronic Malnutrition | |
Dr. Sarah McKune | Improving Nutrition in Children Under Two Through Increased Egg Consumption | |
Dr. John McPeak | The Fundamental Role of Livestock and Livestock Products in Increasing | |
Dr. Arie Havelaar | Ensuring the Safety Of Animal-Source Foods | |
Dr. Derek Headey | ||
Dr. Felicia Wu | Risks and Myths about Animal Source Food Contamination with Chemicals: | |
Dr. Geoffrey Dahl | Animal Source Food Production and the Environment: Myths and Facts | |
Dr. Sara Place | Challenges with Funding of Animal-source Food Production & Consumption Research |
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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.
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