There are many people who know something about ruminant animal agriculture and the essential role it plays in meeting the needs of today’s world and the world of 2050. They’re expertise may be in some aspect of soil, plant, animal or human health. Or it may be in topics related to environmental stewardship, public policy, or sustainable development. The Ruminati is my attempt to introduce them to each other and to make their information more widely known. Welcome to the herd!
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There are many people who know something about ruminant animal agriculture and the essential role it plays in meeting the needs of today’s world and the world of 2050. They’re expertise may be in some aspect of soil, plant, animal or human health. Or it may be in topics related to environmental stewardship, public policy, or sustainable development. The Ruminati is my attempt to introduce them to each other and to make their information more widely known. Welcome to the herd!
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-2019World 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/s0007114513003310Neumann, 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
The Meet Your Herdmates Sodcast
There are many people who know something about ruminant animal agriculture and the essential role it plays in meeting the needs of today’s world and the world of 2050. They’re expertise may be in some aspect of soil, plant, animal or human health. Or it may be in topics related to environmental stewardship, public policy, or sustainable development. The Ruminati is my attempt to introduce them to each other and to make their information more widely known. Welcome to the herd!
