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Contributors
Anthony Bennett joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO) in 1995. He has worked extensively in Asia and Africa in the
design and implementation of dairy-industry programmes, mainly for FAO and
the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Major work areas
that he has been involved with include supporting countries in dairy-industry
strategy, enhancing the inclusiveness of dairy-industry programmes and projects
and promoting and enhanced investments to optimise food security, income
generation and sustainable dairy-enterprise development. Mr Bennett has over
16 years of international professional experience and is the technical editor and
co-author of a number of publications on issues in the dairy industry, ranging from
milk safety to dairy institutions. He holds an M.Sc. Agriculture in Engineering
Technology from University College Dublin, Ireland, and an M.A. from Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland.
Barbara Burlingame is a nutrition scientist and Deputy Director in the Nutrition
Division of FAO. She obtained her undergraduate degrees from the University of
California, Davis, United States, in nutrition science and environmental toxicology,
and her Ph.D. from Massey University in New Zealand. Her expertise includes food
composition, human nutrient requirements and dietary assessment. Recently, her
efforts have been directed toward elaborating the role of biodiversity for food and
nutrition and developing models and indicators for sustainable diets.
Brian Dugdill was raised on his family’s dairy farm in the north of England.
Since graduating in dairying from the University of Reading in 1966 he has been
a dairy practitioner, initially with Glaxo International and the United Kingdom
supermarket group Asda. Since the mid-1970s he has worked in more than 30
mainly developing countries including Eritrea, Iraq, Mongolia, Myanmar and the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. From 1976 to 1985 he led the United
Nations (UN)/FAO Milk Vita programme that established modern dairying in
Bangladesh after its war of independence. From 1986 to 1992 he led the multidonor
UN team that supported the rebuilding of the Ugandan dairy industry after
its prolonged civil war. He was awarded FAO’s B.R. Sen Prize for 2006 (for
outstanding achievement/innovative dairy value chain approach in rebuilding the
Mongolian dairy industry) and the President of Mongolia’s Special Achievement
Medal in 2007. He presently combines the role of Chief Adviser, East Africa Dairy
Development project, with food security/nutrition and livestock assignments for
the UN and others around the globe.