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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....)

• 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