Got milk? (or meat or eggs)? The missing ingredients in global nutritional security

Watch this handsomely made film (with superb writing as well as videography), produced in 2010 by National Geographic‘s Bob Caputo (run-time: 26 minutes).

‘Malnutrition does not make headlines the way famine does. But it is far more widespread and deadly.
Globally, it affects more than a billion people. It is the cause of more than one third of childhood deaths.

‘By combining microfinance with education about child nutrition, the ENAM Project has given Ghanaian women the means and knowledge to fight malnutrition.

‘This is the story of the ENAM Project and some of those women.’
— Bob Caputo

The New Agriculturist online magazine has shared some of the expert views on how to end malnutrition that were made at a Feeding the World conference organized by The Economist and held in Amsterdam in Jan 2013.

‘With millions suffering from malnutrition in both the developed and developing world, how can people be…

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About Dr. Bukar USMAN, mni

I started as a field Veterinary officer with Borno State Ministry of Agriculture and later joined College of Agric, Maiduguri as a lecture & a Researcher in the Department of Animal Health & Production. I was appointed the Provost of the College In 2003. In 2007 I was appointed Hon. Commissioner & Member Borno State Executive Council and later appointed Permanent Secretary with the Borno State Civil Service in 2009. I was the National Facilitator Animal Health, National Programme For Food Security of the Federal Ministry of Agric & Rural Development, Abuja. I was Director, Veterinary Medicine & Allied Products (VMAP) and now Director North East Zone NAFDAC. I’m a member of the National Institute’ (mni), Kuru SEC 40, 2018. I engaged myself in various aspects of the veterinary profession. I founded Sril Group Ltd, Nigeria. I’m now the Director General of Borno State Livestock Management Agency (BOLMA)

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