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2. Introduction to Livestock in a Changing Landscape Shirley Tarawali International Livestock Research Institute 3.
- Inter-institutional collaboration:
- United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
- International Livestock Research Institute(ILRI)
- FAO Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative (LEAD)
- Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
- Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL)
- Bern University of Applied Sciences
- Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (CIRAD)
- Woods Institute for theEnvironment at Stanford University
- (Steering committee)
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- Overview
- Context
- Objectives
- Process and partners
- Approach
- Challenges
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- Livestock?
- Feeding the world is a major challenge now for the 1 billion food insecure and in the future for the 9.2 billion total population
- Agriculture including and especiallylivestockhas a major role to play
- Providing food, contributing to livelihoods, impacting the environment and health
- Change?
- Diverse pressures and demands (population, urbanization, climate change, environmental and health concerns....)
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- The livestock sector is changing everywhere
- A multitude of both challenges and opportunities
- Diverse, competing and contrasting trade offs
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- Diversity
Speed of change Some changing fast (E.Asia)........Some changing slowly (SSA) Nature of change INTENSIFY...................................... De-INTENSIFY - Few, large farms
- Many farmers, small farms
Heterogeneity Trade-offs 7. Social/ livelihood 1 billion livelihoods Diverse functions Mainly for food 8. Health and nutrition Nutrition, wellbeing, cognitive developmentThreat of excessive consumptionZoonotic diseases ILRI/Mann 9. Soil fertility Ecosystem services Pollution, nitrogen, carbon, water........ Environment 10.
- Objectives
- Detailed, comprehensive and integrated view of the global livestock sector
- What is, and will be influencing change, what are the consequences and how can this assessment lead to informed responses
- Current practices and future scenarios
- Opportunities to enhance the positive and insights to mitigate the negative consequences
- Developed and developing country livestock sectors
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- Process
- March 2006 scoping meeting
- Steering committee
- December 2006 global consultation
- Specific consultations
- Development of responses section
- March 2010 publication launch
- Partners:
- Diversity reflects the diversity of the livestock sector, and the breadth and depth the publication has aimed to capture
- Large community of experts from a wide diversity of institutions planning, writing reviewing information and ideas;
- Spanning the entire research, development, public and private investment spectrum;
- Covering livestock, agriculture, environment, technical, policy, economic, social dimensions;
- Ranging from academic, to on the ground livestock practitioners, to policy makers and the private sector
- Industrial, crop livestock and pastoral systems; developed and developing countries
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- Approach
- Working and learning together to generate a comprehensive assessment
- Drivers
- What are the on going changes and how are these impacting on the livestock sector now and in the future?
- Consequences (spatial-temporal; local-global)
- Environmental (carbon, nitrogen, water, biodiversity, manure management)
- Health (human health hazards, animal source food consumption developed and developing countries)
- Social (implications of livestock systems transition extensive (pastoral), mixed and interaction with industrial)
- Responses
- Environmental
- Human nutrition
- Emerging livestock diseases
- Social smallholder capacity to participate not maintain at any cost
- Case studies
- To complement with illustrations of on going diversity and changes in different regions covering both developed and developing countries and industrial livestock production
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- Challenges?
- Almost everyone on the planet is impacted by livestock one way or another, but the sector and its impacts are very diverse and changing
- Millions rely on livestock for livelihoods and are likely to do so for some decades getting them engaged in markets and production in environmentally friendly and equitable ways is a challenge
- A new paradigm for international collaboration around livestock sector issues:
- Exemplified by the diversity of collaboration forLivestock in a changing landscape(but even broader?)
- New and diverse partnerships and roles
- Networks, knowledge sharing and research based evidence for capacity building all important
- Many interwoven trade-offs, risks and tensions, which are globally diverse
- - Solutions - integrated; capacity to innovate; nuanced; policies to support transition
- Livestock in a Changing Landscapeprovides a broad, deep and comprehensive view of the global livestock sector which can contribute to sound future livestock development