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FEED THE FUTURE INNOVATION LAB FOR LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS
FEED THE FUTURE INNOVATION LAB FOR LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS
CALL FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS
APRIL 25-26, 2019 | KATHMANDU, NEPAL
Extending Our Reach:
Improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems at the University of Florida is hosting the Third Global Nutrition Symposium in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 25 and 26, 2019. This year’s theme is Extending Our Reach: Improving human nutrition and incomes through effective livestock research and extension partnerships. This Symposium will bring together ministers of agriculture and livestock production, livestock and nutrition researchers, top university administrators, extensionists, and policy-makers globally to discuss and develop actionable strategies to bridge the research and extension gap and to demonstrate how the production and consumption of nutritious animal-source foods (ASF) can result in improved nutrition, health, incomes, and livelihoods, especially for vulnerable women and children. The Symposium will highlight the pathways for connecting research to extension and other advisory services in different countries to foster greater research delivery and diffusion through extension services in developing countries.
For more details and updates, visit at http://livestocklab.ifas.ufl.edu/events/2019-global-nutrition-symposium/...
Ms. Arati Joshi is a final year student of faculty of agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur. Chitwan. Ms. Joshi had recently won the Young Academics Program 2018, in a research poster competition. 'Young Academics Program Peru Edition', organized by GlobalG.A.P, is a renowned award. The presenters were judged on the basis of abstract in the first phase and research poster in the second phase. The competition was open for all the academic personalities across the globe. Ms. Joshi is the youngest winner of the competition till date. She had presented the research findings in the GlobalGAP Summit that was organized at Lima, Peru during 5-7 November, 2018.
The link to the website of the program is: https://www.summit2018.org/young-academics-program/
The link for youtube video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AokN5RBWihA
The topic of the research article was "Gender Role in Rural Farming System: A Case from Kanchanpur District". Mr. Dharmendra Kalauni, final year student, faculty of agriculture, and Prof. Dr. Durga Devkota, Co-ordinator of Rural Sociology and Development Studies Program, AFU helped Ms. Joshi throughout the research work, and are the co-author of the research poster as well.
Ms Joshi can be reached to this e-mail ID: arati.joshi.9638@gmail.com
Directorate of Research and Extension, AFU
Rampur, Chitwan
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The first biennial NAPA 2018 Conference focuses on securing food, feed, fuel, and fiber (F4) for ever increasing populations through advanced agricultural innovations, best management practices, and environmentally friendly sustainable agricultural production systems with equitable distribution in a world of widening inequalities, increased climate variability, dynamic land-use, and volatile agricultural markets. The NAPA Conference Organizing Committee (COC) is pleased to announce the theme "Global Food Security through Agricultural Transformation" for the Biennial Conference. Invited speakers and many concurrent sessions will be arranged to promote and celebrate this theme. However, the conference is open to submissions of abstracts on any topics related to Agricultural and Allied Sciences. This call solicits abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Also, there will be separate competitive oral and poster presentation sessions for students. The first three winners of each of the student sessions will be recognized and awarded cash prize and certificate of appreciation.
The abstract is limited to 300 words, and it must be submitted in a word /pdf file.
For more details, visit http://napaamericas.org/conference2018/call-for-abstract.php