Working "...to sustainably intensify smallholder livestock systems in order to improve the nutrition, health, livelihoods and incomes of the poor." Dr. Adegbola Adesogan is a professor of ruminant nutrition and director of the Food Systems Institute and Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems. His research focuses on sustainably increasing animal-source food production and consumption; improving forage production, quality and preservation; and using feed additives, forages and byproducts to sustainably improve animal production and health.
Dr. Adesogan's Univ. of Florida page - https://animal.ifas.ufl.edu/people/adegbola-adesogan/ The Food Systems Institute - https://foodsystems.ifas.ufl.edu/ Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems - https://livestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu
Adesogan, A. T., et al. (2019). Animal source foods: Sustainability problem or malnutrition and sustainability solution? Perspective matters. Global Food Security, 100325. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100325 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912419300525?via%3Dihub
UNICEF report - https://www.unicef.org/reports/state-of-worlds-children-2019 World Health Organization, 2014. World health assembly global nutrition targets 2025: stunting policy brief. http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/globaltargets_stunting_policybrief.pdf.
Papers mentioned: Hulett, J. L., et al. (2014). Animal source foods have a positive impact on the primary school test scores of Kenyan schoolchildren in a cluster-randomised, controlled feeding intervention trial. British Journal of Nutrition, 111(5), 875-886. doi:10.1017/s0007114513003310 Neumann, C. G., et al. (2007). Meat Supplementation Improves Growth, Cognitive, and Behavioral Outcomes in Kenyan Children. The Journal of nutrition, 137(4), 1119-1123. doi:10.1093/jn/137.4.1119
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