Health and nutrition

This policy brief outlines policy actions for management of urban livestock production and identifies the existing knowledge gaps.

More than half of the world’s seven billion people live in urban areas – a proportion that is set to increase to 69% by 2050. Rapid urbanization will increase the demand for food security, nutritious diets and food safety for urban populations.

2015 is marked in history as a super development year. The Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 interconnected goals for global development which were agreed on in September 2015, are part of the super development plan.

Report from SIANI and SLU Global WorkshopWith more than 26 participants, the workshop on Bending the Curve-Africa's Unfolding Agrifood System and Diet Transformation took place on Wednesday April 13th 2016.

Archangel Munthali (We Effect) on the positive results from their food programme in Malawi

Measuring the impact: A case study on the impact of improved nutrition in the value chain

Charlotte Pedersen (Nordic coordinator, GAIN) on how poor nutrition is impacting on production, education and health in developing countries

Zofia Kurowska - inspector at the national food agency on the regulation of insects in Swedish food legislation

Helena Wall, researcher at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) about maggots as a source of protein for poultry