{"id":5389,"date":"2021-08-07T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/?p=5389"},"modified":"2021-08-07T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T09:45:54","slug":"leveraging-livestock-for-human-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/leveraging-livestock-for-human-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveraging livestock for human nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Livestock are a key resource for economic growth in many countries, both at national and household level. Animals are important assets and an essential source of income for livestock-keeping households.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Well-managed and utilized livestock can play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The livestock sector plays a crucial role in the social and economic development of a country, especially in low- and middle-income countries. It directly supports the livelihoods of 600 million poor smallholder farmers in the developing world. Livestock are a direct and indirect source of food for rural and urban households. <\/b>It is estimated that livestock-derived foods, or animal-source foods (ASF), contribute 18% of global food energy consumption and 34% of global protein consumption (FAOSTAT, 2016). ASF are a unique source of high-quality proteins and bioavailable essential vitamins and minerals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Leveraging the potential of livestock and optimizing efficiency in production systems is now more important than ever before given the current global food security and nutrition situation.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Presented by Romano Pisciotti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Livestock are a key resource for economic growth in many countries, both at national and household level. Animals are important assets and an essential source of income for livestock-keeping households.\u00a0 Well-managed and utilized livestock can play an important role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The livestock sector plays a crucial role in the social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/leveraging-livestock-for-human-nutrition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leveraging livestock for human nutrition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,16,621],"tags":[1683,5,41],"class_list":["post-5389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-marketing","category-drops","category-pisciotti","tag-livestock","tag-pisciotti","tag-romano-pisciotti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5391,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5389\/revisions\/5391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}