Following a global consultation on June 2 for the 5th LCIRAH Annual Research Conference, the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy was formerly launched on June 3 in London for the world community of interdisciplinary researchers working on agriculture systems to improve nutrition and health.The launch decision came after several meetings in Africa and Asia organised by the founding partners of the ANH Academy viz the Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and...
Agriculture, nutrition and health colleagues - join ANH Academy!
Author : Prakash ShettyPublished Date : Tuesday, June 23, 2015
5TH LCIRAH Annual Research Conference
Author : Prakash ShettyPublished Date : Monday, June 22, 2015
The 5th Annual LCIRAH Conference - ‘Agri-health research: what have we learned and where to next?’ was held on June 3 and 4 at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. The Conference was attended by over 250 delegates providing opportunity for researchers around the world to examine and reflect critically on what we have learned from agriculture, nutrition and health research in the last five years, and what the future research agenda needs to be.The research areas...
Does women’s work in agriculture help or hinder nutrition in Pakistan?
Author : LANSAPublished Date : Tuesday, June 2, 2015
This question has assumed great significance due to the steady feminisation, over the last decade, of the agricultural labour force, and the absence of nutritional improvement in the same period.Haris Gazdar gave a talk on this subject at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton on the 29th of April as part of the Transform Nutrition Seminar Series. His talk was based the LANSA Working Paper he co-authored with Mysbah Balagamwala and Hussain Bux Mallah, Women’s Agricultural Work...
How good are you at research uptake? New tool to assess capacity
Author : Julia PowellPublished Date : Thursday, May 7, 2015
The need to understand strengths and experiencesIn the initial stages of LANSA, before attempting to strengthen our capacity to deliver research uptake, we needed an agreed understanding of our strengths and experience. I wanted to start a conversation with researchers around uptake, and to enable research teams to assess their own capacity. Having scouted around I couldn’t find a tool to help us with this. But I did find that Andrew Clappison and his colleagues at CommsConsult had done...
