Monthly Archives: January 2020

This is ‘Livestock Month’ on Agrilinks: USAID’s Andrew Bisson on sustainable livestock for sustainable development

Posted on 12/01/2020 by Dr. Bukar USMAN, mni

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Andrew Bisson, livestock specialist for the Bureau for Food Security at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), introduces ‘Livestock Month’ by Agrilinks, USAID’s knowledge platform. ‘A warm welcome to the Agrilinks Livestock month!…

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On why the EAT-Lancet’s ‘Great Food Transformation’ will require a ‘Great Economic Transformation’—and more

Posted on 12/01/2020 by Dr. Bukar USMAN, mni

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Illustration by Hiroko Yoshimoto. A new paper by scientists at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Tufts University analyses the costs of adopting the ‘universal reference diet’ recommended for both human and planetary…

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Inalienable imperative—More, and more sustainable, meat, milk, eggs and fish for more than one billion people

Posted on 12/01/2020 by Dr. Bukar USMAN, mni

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
A new scientific article from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems judiciously pushes back against some of the on-going anti-livestock rhetoric appearing in Western media. The new paper has four big messages:…

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