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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line
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FAO sets the record straight on flawed livestock emission comparisons–and the livestock livelihoods on the line

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As the media frenzy caused by a ‘planetary health diet’ proposed in a new report from an EAT-Lancet commission this month continues, it is perhaps timely to recall that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has set the record straight regarding  a flawed comparison of greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock and transport sectors, a statement that is commonly used to support arguments for the world to stop eating meat.  Continue reading →

IFPRI’s Shenggen Fan on the ‘differentiated approach’ needed to navigate today’s food systems
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IFPRI’s Shenggen Fan on the ‘differentiated approach’ needed to navigate today’s food systems

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The following sensible comments were recently made by Shenggen Fan, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Fan is one of the 37 authors of the new report making the media rounds, Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems, and a member of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health. Continue reading →

A move away from ‘grain fundamentalism’ to higher quality milk, meat and egg calories to fight malnutrition
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A move away from ‘grain fundamentalism’ to higher quality milk, meat and egg calories to fight malnutrition

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Derek Headey, a senior research fellow at the CGIAR’s International Food Policy Research Institute, yesterday published an opinion piece in The Telegraph on the importance of using milk, meat and eggs to fight malnutrition and stunting in the developing world. But, Headey warns, these ‘animal-sourced foods’, particularly fresh milk and eggs, are prohibitively expensive for poor households. Continue reading →

Dairy: A tool to fight poverty—An interview with IFCN’s Torsten Hemme
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Dairy: A tool to fight poverty—An interview with IFCN’s Torsten Hemme

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Having scanned the scientific literature (100 journal articles) on the impact of milk production on reducing poverty, Torsten Hemme, managing director of the IFCN (International Farm Comparison Network) Dairy Research Center, in Kiel, Germany, says that dairy is improving lives in multiple ways. Continue reading →

FAO on the common but flawed comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and transport
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FAO on the common but flawed comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and transport

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Livestock experts Anne Mottet and Henning Steinfeld, of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), warn of the pitfalls of simplification when looking at greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and transport are often compared, but in a flawed way. Continue reading →

Four major livestock investment opportunities highlighted at Burkina Faso national planning conference
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Four major livestock investment opportunities highlighted at Burkina Faso national planning conference

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Augustine Ayantunde, the ILRI regional representative in West Africa, presented investment opportunities to enhance the productivity of Burkina Faso’s livestock sector, based on decades of ILRI and partner research in the West African Sahel. Continue reading →