Category: Health & Nutrition

Will Men in the Kitchen Improve Nutrition? Women in Rwanda Say Yes

by Livestock Lab

June 7, 2023

Gender roles affect everyone, everywhere, but they are most pronounced in countries with highly traditional cultures. In many societies, men decide which foods to buy and how much, and this role makes them primary decision makers in relation ... READ MORE

Category: Food Safety, Health & Nutrition, Relationships & Family, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Food Safety, Gender Roles, International Development, Livestock, Nutrition, Rwanda

A Shout Out for Milk

by Livestock Lab

December 12, 2022

It turned out better than they planned. Instead of quietly spreading nutrition messages from household to household, community advocates amplified their voices through megaphones to reach the masses gathered at markets in Rwanda. “Gabura ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Livestock, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Behavior Change, Children, Communicating, Milk, Mothers, Rwanda

Taskforce to Continue a Project’s Legacy in Cambodia

by Livestock Lab

December 7, 2022

Action movies often dramatize how a team comes together to stand for justice, but this story line may seem strange in the world of agricultural research. Even so, a research team in Cambodia pursued a unique and ambitious approach to achieve ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Livestock, Professional Development
Tags: Cambodia, Food Safety, Human Health, Research, Scaling, Wet Market

Engaging Men Supports Nutrition Improvements in Rwanda

by Livestock Lab

November 18, 2022

Changing behavior within a relatively short timeframe is challenging, but one research study in Rwanda found that involving fathers was helpful for changing their behavior in support of improving the nutrition of their children. After the study’s ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Livestock
Tags: Children, Gender, Men, Mothers, Nutrition, Rwanda

Milk is safer than we thought

by Livestock Lab

April 29, 2022

Quick Summary: New research dispels the myth that drinking milk contaminated with a fungal toxin causes liver cancer. Evidence from four continents shows that milk distributors, especially in developing countries, have been too quick to dispose ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Livestock, Pests & Disease
Tags: Aflatoxin, Cancer, Dairy, Malnutrition, Milk

Researchers return to field work for healthy infants in Ethiopia

by Livestock Lab

February 22, 2021

Despite delays, newborn babies in Ethiopia are now being enrolled in a research study designed to reveal their vulnerability to bacterial infections from livestock. The project’s field work planned for April 2020 had been delayed by the COVID-19 ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Livestock, Pests & Disease, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Disease, Ethiopia, Infant, Laboratory, Livestock, Special Topics

Snapshots of research in 2020

by Livestock Lab

December 14, 2020

Enjoy a few photos from 2020, with links to the projects and events they represent. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, our work continued. We were also fortunate to receive a renewal award from USAID for another five years of supporting research ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Livestock, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: 2020, Cambodia, Masks, Niger, Research

Mothers see healthier children in the “One Egg Per Day” project in Burkina Faso

by Livestock Lab

February 24, 2020

“Bicycle chicken” is a national dish in Burkina Faso, and even Bill Gates shared a video about it and blogged that chicken rearing can reduce extreme poverty. But what about the eggs? Recent research in Burkina Faso, sponsored ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Livestock
Tags: Burkina Faso, Children, Eggs, Intervention, Mothers, Nutrition, Resilience

Practice Makes McKune Perfect

by Livestock Lab

September 19, 2018

Dr. Sarah McKune credits the start of her academic career to a chance meeting with another familiar face in the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems: Dr. Sandra Russo. About one decade ago, she met Dr. Russo while volunteering ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Health & Nutrition, Livestock, , Work & Life
Tags: Global, Human Health, International Development, Leader, Nutrition, Practice

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