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What are the options for sustainable intensification through livestock feeding? How can we best deal with the competition for biomass between livestock feeding and soil fertility? These are some of…

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The Agricultural Act of 2014, also known as the Farm Bill, protects vital nutrition assistance programs and includes initiatives that will improve the health of the nation. Learn more about this piece of legislation in the infographic below, and see how the Academy’s recommendations fared with the bill.”

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Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)’s insight: Prof Ian MacDonald, chairman of the SACN working group on carbohydrates, said: “The evidence that we have analysed shows quite clearly that high free sugars intake in adults is associated with increased energy intake and obesity. Continue reading →

Two new videos exploring conservation agriculture were recently shared. The first looks back to the US dust bowl in the 1930s that motivated the development of no-till farming and conservation agri… Continue reading →

Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)’s insight: Reducing global poverty and hunger and improving nutrition are core objectives of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative. Harnessing agricultural science and technology is critical to meeting the challenge of incr… Continue reading →

Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)’s insight: The last decade of CAADP implementation, has redefined and reshaped the critical path to the attainment of Africa`s agricultural transformation objectives. Mrs. Tumusiime informed the Forum that the recent AU Joint Conference of Ministers of Agriculture, R… Continue reading →

Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)’s insight: “Small farmers need to be supported in accessing quality veterinary service especially during the out brake of livestock diseases ,more veterinary staff should be employed to ensure that in every corner of the country livestock farmers can have access to t… Continue reading →

Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)’s insight: “#Livestock is currently contributing only 10%. This is very small. We need to increase the investment in the sector by about 35% and that is when the sector will be productive,” Dr Ndikumana Continue reading →

Bukar Usman (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)’s insight: “@FAOKnowledge: Family farming is inextricably linked to national & global #foodsecurity. Key facts & figures w/ #iyff14 infographic: http://bit.ly/1saUo6D” Continue reading →

Jonah Sachs: Alarming predictions will likely just grow our current system of food production, exacerbating its environmental problems. The message should be that our industrial food system is driving climate change Continue reading →