Dear Partners, We regret to inform you that the 9TH AFRICA NUTRITION CONFERENCE (ANEC IX) scheduled for August 10-14 in Lusaka Zambia, has been CANCELLED due to the global Corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic. For the organizers, this was a very difficult decision in many aspects, but at the end of the day, this action was […]
Addis Ababa, 4th October 2018 – The 8th Biennial Africa Nutrition Conference (ANEC 8) of the African Nutrition Society was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 1st – 5th October 2018 at the Capital Hotel & Spa. Discussions and debates treated the theme: Multi-stakeholder nutrition actions in Africa – Translating evidence into policies, and programmes for […]
Dear colleagues and friends, As you are aware, the African Nutrition Society (ANS), is a learned society with the vision – “to create a unified continental nutrition profession of individual members, provide a continental professional scientific forum, promote training, research and capacity building in nutrition and contribute to workforce development to meet Africa’s nutrition and […]
The greatest honour for me was to be part of helping to shape the African Nutrition Society and its Africa Nutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC) over the course of its 14 years in championing the nutrition agenda across Africa. I have seen ANEC events traverse the continent and now, undoubtedly become the conference of choice to […]
The Seventh Biennial Nutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC VII) of the African Nutrition Society was held in Marrakesh, Morocco from 9th to 14th October 2016 at the Palm Plaza Hotel. Discussions and debates treated the theme: Nutrition Dynamics in Africa: Opportunities and challenges for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. The participants of the conference declare: Notes […]
The African Nutrition Society has learnt with profound sadness the passing of Professor Nevin Scrimshaw, a leading light and force major for nutrition over the last eight decades or more. Nevin’s life and work speaks for itself and as has been captured variously in the media and the nutrition community, this great pioneer has been […]