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🌿🌍 Livestock, the environment, and global concerns—what's the real story? Join us on #TheBomaPodcast as Susan MacMillan unravels the complexities and highlights the need for a wider perspective. Don't miss it!
🌱 Discover the captivating journey of , as she shares her transformation from a suburban upbringing to becoming an advocate for livestock and sustainable agriculture in the Global South. Join us on #TheBomaPodcast:
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🔥 #Heatstress is a growing problem in the developing world, endangering millions of people and their #livestock. Find out what exactly heat stress is and how it affects animals' ability to cope with rising temperatures. #ClimateChange #Livestock Listen:
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🥩🌱 Are vegan and vegetarian diets the answer to environmental and ethical concerns? Listen to 's insightful perspective on #TheBomaPodcast. Tune in to this and more now!
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. - a podcast about livestock in the developing world, produced by . A wealth of topics & many interesting speakers. They need help to promote, subscribe & listen to their episodes.
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Is there a place for livestock to be part of the solution, and not the problem, for #climatechange?
Find out in #TheBomapodcast:
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This graphic shows the comparable volume of plant-based food you would need to eat to gain the equivalent amount of iron, zinc, or vitamin A from meat, milk and eggs.
Lora Iannotti explains in our episode 'Animal-source foods for people and the planet': theboma.buzzsprout.com/1539610/947583
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"Stunting...is a life sentence of underachievement and underperformance. And it's this loss of potential that what might a child have accomplished for all of us," said on 's .
Listen to the full episode:
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Thanks for the raising this important point. There isn't a single message for the world about meat and livestock. Thoughout the series we dig into regional contexts, and feature voices from Africa and Asia.
We hope you follow along to our weekly releases and share your thoughts
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Upcoming on - #animalwelfare scientist Rebecca Doyle on the needs & state of welfare in smallholder farming, with scientist & moral philosopher .
Subscribe to receive the episode as soon as it's published! 👉 ilri.org/podcast
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Can one chicken make a difference? Research has answers in this #podcast episode: ilri.org/knowledge/podc
#nutrition #food #agriculture #livestock #vaccines #Kenya #ILRI #TheBoma
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We are excited to announce an upcoming episode on #animalwelfare in farming, featuring , professor of bioethics & founder of , along with researchers & Rebecca Doyle.
Subscribe now to receive the episode: ilri.org/podcast
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In the 2nd of our #podcast episodes featuring , we hear what inspired his book 'The First 1000 Days'. What exactly is this crucial period - and what is its impact on the rest of a life, and on the world?
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What's been your favourite episode of The Boma podcast so far?
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#WhyLivestockMatter #sciencepodcast
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Are digital technologies enough to support women farmers? Immaculate Omondi, ILRI gender research economist answers on bomapodcast.
Catch up on your favourite listening platform: ilri.org/podcast
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Great about the use of drones to deliver livestock vaccines and the intersection of gender and technology: open.spotify.com/episode/4QayqX
Nice overlap with our paper: mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/3
This is just the beginning of using drones in livestock vaccine supply chains.
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"Looking into the eyes of someone dying of #hunger becomes the disease of the soul."
In 2003 Wall Street journalist Roger Thurow visited #Ethiopia to report on the devastating drought and famine. What he saw there changed his life forever.
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In the latest episode of #TheBomapodcast we hear from Roger Thurow, writer and author on the politics of world hunger. Thurow shares the experience that changed his life and inspired him to focus on nutrition, hunger, and agriculture development.
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Don't miss 's interview of former journalist .
'The story that stopped me cold was the occurrence of medieval hunger in the 21st C.'
'Looking into the eyes of someone dying of hunger becomes a disease of the soul.'
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