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Frédéric Leroy

@fleroy1974

Jun 21

The #DublinDeclaration in defence of livestock is big: dublin-declaration.org ✅Signed by 1000+ experts dublin-declaration.org/signatures ✅Endorsed by the agri EU Commissioner twitter.com/jwojc/status/1 ✅Commentary in Nature nature.com/articles/s4301 ✅Media coverage telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/2

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Janusz Wojciechowski

@jwojc

Oct 31, 2022

Replying to @jwojc

The Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of Livestock - recently approved, is a very valuable contribution to the ongoing debates in the EU. I recommend its reading. dublin-declaration.org /2

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Ty Beal

@TyRBeal

It's still shocking to me that MOST women and adolescents worldwide are deficient in micronutrients. Even in the UK. We need better diets in every way but certainly higher in nutrient density. thelancet.com/journals/langl

ILRI.org

Milking it: boosting profit and professionalization in Kenya’s informal dairy sector

Jun 19

🥛 More than 70% of Kenya's milk is sold in the informal sector. The #MoreMilk project helps vendors improve milk safety and boost revenue. The project to date has helped 200 vendors, including women. 🐮

ilri.org

On the outskirts of Kenya’s Rift Valley town of Eldoret, many locals make money by selling fresh cow’s milk. Vendor Winnie Cherono (‘Mama Chumba’), who sells…

"The idea is not to get rid of the traders but help them grow and be in the formal sector" let's see how

and partners research can support this!

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Milk traders organisation and regulators in a panel facilitated by @SilviaAlonso78 Consumers prefer milk for informal sector for price and convenience. Public health services need to ensure the milk is safe. Milk dispensers are a good option twitter.com/isabaltenweck/…

Susan MacMillan

@SusanMacMillan

Nice video short! Researchers in

's #MoreMilk project trained the people they aimed to support—making a real difference to the many Kenyans operating in the country's booming 'informal' milk trade

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The #MoreMilk project comes to a close today with a project dissemination workshop featuring sessions and speakers from @ILRI, @kenyadairyboard, Kenya Dairy Traders Association and more partners @A4NH_CGIAR @FCDOAgResearch youtu.be/LY2n_PZPFJQ

Susan MacMillan

@SusanMacMillan

Nice video short! Researchers in

's #MoreMilk project trained the people they aimed to support—making a real difference to the many Kenyans operating in the country's booming 'informal' milk trade

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Razib

Khan

@razibkhan

The out-of-Africa event in the light of ancient DNA and genomics open.substack.com/pub/razib/p/th On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib covers what we’ve learned about the out-of-Africa event, starting with our understanding of molecular genetics that developed in the 1980’s and…~~~~~~~~~~ hf3f8e3a 992bba08-8399-4bde-ab97-c1305e64876 SSR-I18N f2c6ac64-eb07-4bf8-bb18-52a36cf153b7 hf3f8e3a ~~~~~~~~~~

Policies recognise the importance of small scale vendors and provide permits issued for free. Importance of capacity building to improve their activities

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Great start of the MoreMilk dissemination workshop with Margaret Kibogy MD @KenyaDairyBoard highlighting the challenges faced by the dairy sector on Kenya @ILRI

allAfrica.com

@allafrica

If Current Trends Continue, Low-Income Countries May Not Achieve a Single Development Goal By 2030: allafrica.com/stories/202306 #Africa #SDGs

A Dishonesty Expert Stands Accused of Fraud. Scholars Who Worked With Her Are Scrambling.

Stephanie M. Lee

@stephaniemlee

Jun 22

NEW: Following data-fraud allegations against Francesca Gino, a Harvard expert in dishonesty research, scholars who worked with her are shaken. We talked to some about whether they stand by their research and what working with her was like. chronicle.com/article/a-dish

@nellgluckman

chronicle.com

At Harvard Business School, Francesca Gino’s hot streak of buzzy research made her look like a model scholar. What if it was a warning sign?

MIT Technology Review

@techreview

AI is dreaming up drugs that no one has ever seen. Now we’ve got to see if they work.

On average, it takes more than 10 years and billions of dollars to develop a new drug. Incorporating AI into the drug development pipeline could help create cheaper pharmaceuticals faster.

technologyreview.com

AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals.

Replying to

Our Nature Food article can be accessed for free here: rdcu.be/deSSs

Delia Grace—of

—is 1 of 9 experts on the panel of this year's

@UN_CFS

@hlpe_cfs

inequalities report, which is being launched today in Rome at 3pm EAT Delia is an expert in #FoodSafety #FoodSecurity #Nutrition #OneHealth

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Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement

@SUN_Movement

Jun 14

📆Save the date for the launch of 'The State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World 2023' report. Join

for a discussion on agri #foodsystems transformation, healthy diets and urbanization: bit.ly/SOFI2023

Antimicrobial resistance to cause 5.2 million deaths in western Pacific by 2030, new report says

Ekta Patel

@ehpatel

Jun 17

#Antimicrobialresistance to cause 5.2 million deaths in western Pacific by 2030, new report says

telegraph.co.uk

Drug-resistant infections will become a bigger killer in the region than HIV/Aids and tuberculosis, according to the WHO