The keynote presentation discusses the challenges of sustainable livestock agriculture given increasing global demand for livestock products. It notes that metrics around livestock's impacts on nutrition, climate change, and the environment can be confusing due to different perspectives and data. The presentation calls for science-based solutions to address these challenges and ensure sustainable healthy diets for all, including improving production efficiencies, identifying heat-tolerant livestock genetics, and better rangeland management. Livestock research can help clarify evidence, mitigate impacts, and transform agri-food systems to balance food security and environmental protection.
Sustainable livestock systems: Appropriate solutions for different contextsILRI
Presented by Laura Cramer at the COP27 side event at the Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas Pavillion, organized by the Protein PACT, 9 November 2022
The roles of livestock in achieving the sustainable development goalsILRI
Presented by Iain A Wright, Deputy Director General-Research (ILRI) at the 25 Anniversary Conference of the Ethiopian Society for Animal Production (ESAP), Haramaya, Ethiopia, 24–26 August 2017
Johan Swinnen and Channing Arndt
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
Africa Discussion of IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report Climate Change & Food Systems
IFPRI Africa Regional Office
Livestock roles in addressing the Sustainable Development GoalsILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the third Global Official Development Assistance Forum for Sustainable Agricultural Development, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 13–15 May 2019.
The global livestock sector: Trends, drivers and implications for society, he...ILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson, William Wint, Giulia Conchedda, Giuseppina Cinardi, Thomas Van Boeckel, Michael Macleod, Bernard Bett, Delia Grace and Marius Gilbert at the annual conference of the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS), Chester, UK, 14-15 April 2015.
The document discusses how new technologies can be applied to animal production to increase efficiency and sustainability. It describes technologies that can improve animal health and welfare, performance, carcass quality, and behavior by monitoring animals' nutrition, grazing patterns, and stress levels. These technologies, including precision livestock farming, precision breeding, and smart farming, aim to reduce production costs, protect the environment, ensure food security and safety, and increase homogeneity. However, their impact on economic, social and rural development sustainability depends on the costs of the technologies.
Designing and implementation of community-based breeding programs for adapted...ILRI
Presented by Haile, A., Duguma, G., Mirkena, T., Tibbo, M., Iñiguez, L., Rischkowsky, B., Okeyo, M., Wurzinger, M. and Sölkner, J. at the 5th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture and the 18th Annual Meeting of the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP), Addis Ababa, October 25-28, 2010
Sustainable livestock systems: Appropriate solutions for different contextsILRI
Presented by Laura Cramer at the COP27 side event at the Sustainable Agriculture of the Americas Pavillion, organized by the Protein PACT, 9 November 2022
The roles of livestock in achieving the sustainable development goalsILRI
Presented by Iain A Wright, Deputy Director General-Research (ILRI) at the 25 Anniversary Conference of the Ethiopian Society for Animal Production (ESAP), Haramaya, Ethiopia, 24–26 August 2017
Johan Swinnen and Channing Arndt
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT
Africa Discussion of IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report Climate Change & Food Systems
IFPRI Africa Regional Office
Livestock roles in addressing the Sustainable Development GoalsILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the third Global Official Development Assistance Forum for Sustainable Agricultural Development, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 13–15 May 2019.
The global livestock sector: Trends, drivers and implications for society, he...ILRI
Presented by Timothy Robinson, William Wint, Giulia Conchedda, Giuseppina Cinardi, Thomas Van Boeckel, Michael Macleod, Bernard Bett, Delia Grace and Marius Gilbert at the annual conference of the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS), Chester, UK, 14-15 April 2015.
The document discusses how new technologies can be applied to animal production to increase efficiency and sustainability. It describes technologies that can improve animal health and welfare, performance, carcass quality, and behavior by monitoring animals' nutrition, grazing patterns, and stress levels. These technologies, including precision livestock farming, precision breeding, and smart farming, aim to reduce production costs, protect the environment, ensure food security and safety, and increase homogeneity. However, their impact on economic, social and rural development sustainability depends on the costs of the technologies.
Designing and implementation of community-based breeding programs for adapted...ILRI
Presented by Haile, A., Duguma, G., Mirkena, T., Tibbo, M., Iñiguez, L., Rischkowsky, B., Okeyo, M., Wurzinger, M. and Sölkner, J. at the 5th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture and the 18th Annual Meeting of the Ethiopian Society of Animal Production (ESAP), Addis Ababa, October 25-28, 2010
Shenggen Fan discusses the challenges facing the livestock sector including rapid urbanization, rising inequality, food safety concerns, and antimicrobial resistance. Livestock is key for smallholder livelihoods by providing income, assets, and risk management. Consumption of animal sourced foods is important for nutrition, especially in developing countries, where it is associated with reduced stunting. The livestock sector accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from enteric fermentation and feed production. Policy innovations will play a key role in ensuring livestock practices improve nutrition and sustainability while mitigating climate change.
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COUNTRY WORKSHOP
The Knowledge Lab on Climate Resilient Food Systems: An analytical support facility to achieve the SDGs
Co-Organized by IFPRI and AGRA
FEB 7, 2019 - 08:30 AM TO 05:55 PM EAT
- Worldwide consumption of poultry is increasing, with India emerging as the 2nd largest market growing at over 14% annually. However, per capita consumption in India remains well below recommended levels.
- The poultry industry in Jharkhand is growing at 20% annually but local production meets only a fraction of daily demand. A market study identified potential for expansion.
- A proposed commercial poultry farm in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand was estimated to generate a net profit within 6 years, through rearing broiler chickens in batches of 500 birds each week for meat production. Infrastructure, equipment, feed and operating costs were calculated.
- While demand exceeds supply locally, opportunities exist
To have at least two (and up to six) typical farms for each region.
The first farm is an average sized farm with an average management performance. The second farm is larger than the first one but also having an average management performance, to show economies of scale.
They represent major milk production systems, farms, milk produced in region
International world food day A Presentation By Mr. Allah Dad Khan on 16th Oct...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
The document provides background information on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It details that FAO was founded in 1943 and formally established in 1945 to help countries modernize and improve agriculture, forestry, and fisheries practices. FAO aims to achieve global food security and serves both developed and developing member countries. The document outlines FAO's goals and initiatives to end hunger and malnutrition through sustainable management of natural resources. It also discusses the annual World Food Day celebration and themes related to social protection, agriculture, and breaking the cycle of rural poverty.
1) The Tropical Poultry Genetic Solutions (TPGS) project aims to characterize local chicken ecotypes, develop improved breeding approaches in partnership with other organizations, and test dissemination mechanisms to deliver more productive and adapted poultry breeds to smallholders.
2) TPGS is currently testing chicken lines and crosses from various breeds on farms in Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, and measuring differences in body weight compared to local chickens.
3) Ongoing indigenous chicken breeding programs in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania are employing BLUP to select for increased body weight, egg number, and survival using local ecotypes identified as priorities in each country.
The poultry sector has undergone major structural changes during the past two decades due to the introduction of modern intensive production methods, genetic improvements, improved preventive disease control and biosecurity measures, increasing income and human population, and urbanization
More Details: https://pixelsutra.com/poultry-industry
Global Food Security Challenges and OpportunitiesShenggen Fan
Global food security faces many challenges including volatile food prices, population growth, land and water constraints, climate change, and the increasing demand for biofuels. To address these issues, the document calls for a development agenda with greater support for food security through investments in agriculture, safety nets, land and water productivity, and climate change adaptation. It also emphasizes the crucial role policy research can play in informing investments and policies to promote food security through impacts on areas like poverty reduction, resource allocation, and agricultural technology development and adoption.
The future of sustainable livestock systems in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presented by Shirley Tarawali at the Expert dialogue: The future of sustainable agriculture. Let’s think about… livestock, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 28 June 2022
Livestock marketing and supply chain management of livestock products ILRI
Presented by Steven J. Staal as a keynote address at the 74th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Maharashtra, India, 18-20 December 2014
The Livestock Sector in India: Progress and Challenges by Vijay Sardana, Poultry Federation of India.
Presented at the ReSAKSS-Asia - MIID conference "Evolving Agrifood Systems in Asia: Achieving food and nutrition security by 2030" on Oct 30-31, 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar.
This Thematic Paper is part of a Toolkit for Project Design (Livestock Thematic Papers: Tools for Project Design) which reflects IFAD’s commitment to developing a sustainable livestock sector in which poor farmers and herders might have higher incomes, and better access to assets, services, technologies and markets.
The paper indents to be a practical tool for development practitioners, project designers and policymakers to define appropriate livestock development interventions. It also provides recommendations on critical issues for rural development and also possible responses and actions to encourage the socio-economic empowerment of poor livestock keepers.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Priority areas of livestock sector for strengthening food and nutrition secur...ILRI
Presented by Tek B. Gurung and Bimal K. Nirmal at the Workshop on transforming livelihoods in South Asia through sustainable livestock research and development, Kathmandu, Nepal, 13-14 November 2018
Climate change poses serious threats to the environment and dairy production in Africa. Dairy production contributes to climate change through feed production, processing, transportation, and enteric methane emissions from cattle. However, climate change also negatively impacts dairy production by shortening growing seasons, causing water scarcity, and increasing heat stress for cattle. To adapt, the dairy industry needs to improve resilience through better herd management, feed strategies, and manure management to mitigate emissions. The future will require more sustainable dairy production to meet increasing demand while protecting the environment.
This document provides recommendations for improving feed resources in Pakistan. It recommends identifying and propagating superior fodder crops with higher yields. It also recommends improving range lands by evaluating local forage species, testing exotic grass varieties, and using water conservation techniques. Additionally, it recommends utilizing agricultural and industrial byproducts for livestock feeding by evaluating them, improving their quality, and providing farmer training. Overall, it stresses the need to better understand nutrient requirements, document available resources, estimate nutrient values, and develop the livestock feed industry in Pakistan.
Water use in Global Dairy Farming Systems and lessons for breeding policies f...SIANI
This presentation was held by N.Sultana & K.J. Peters at the interntional seminar 'Livestock Resources for Food Security in the Light of Climate Change' co-hosted by SIANI and SLU Global in Uppsala on the 11th of March 2016.
The document discusses the concept of livestock units, which provides a standardized way to calculate feed requirements for different types of animals on a farm. A livestock unit is based on the weight of a mature dairy or beef cow, with one dairy cow weighing 400-500kg equaling 1 livestock unit. The carrying capacity of land refers to the amount of forage dry matter it can support per area, while stocking rate is the number of animals on the land relative to its carrying capacity. Calculating livestock units allows farmers to determine the appropriate stocking rate for their land to avoid overgrazing.
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food SecurityShenggen Fan
This document discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security. It notes that climate change will negatively affect crop and livestock yields through higher temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events. This will lower global food production and increase food prices and malnutrition. Agriculture is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions but can also help mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. The document calls for integrating climate change into strategies to adapt agriculture and ensure food security, such as investing in research, irrigation, drought-resistant crops, and social safety nets.
This document provides an overview of ILRI and the livestock sector. It discusses:
(1) Facts about the growing livestock sector in developing countries, including rising meat consumption and economic opportunities;
(2) ILRI's mission, strategic objectives, and critical success factors to improve food security and reduce poverty through research on livestock;
(3) ILRI's role in the CGIAR Consortium's Livestock and Fish portfolio focusing on sustainable intensification, value chains, and policies; and
(4) Characteristics of ILRI including its integrated research teams, bioscience facilities, staff and resources.
Shenggen Fan discusses the challenges facing the livestock sector including rapid urbanization, rising inequality, food safety concerns, and antimicrobial resistance. Livestock is key for smallholder livelihoods by providing income, assets, and risk management. Consumption of animal sourced foods is important for nutrition, especially in developing countries, where it is associated with reduced stunting. The livestock sector accounts for about 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, primarily from enteric fermentation and feed production. Policy innovations will play a key role in ensuring livestock practices improve nutrition and sustainability while mitigating climate change.
All Presentation Slides
COUNTRY WORKSHOP
The Knowledge Lab on Climate Resilient Food Systems: An analytical support facility to achieve the SDGs
Co-Organized by IFPRI and AGRA
FEB 7, 2019 - 08:30 AM TO 05:55 PM EAT
- Worldwide consumption of poultry is increasing, with India emerging as the 2nd largest market growing at over 14% annually. However, per capita consumption in India remains well below recommended levels.
- The poultry industry in Jharkhand is growing at 20% annually but local production meets only a fraction of daily demand. A market study identified potential for expansion.
- A proposed commercial poultry farm in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand was estimated to generate a net profit within 6 years, through rearing broiler chickens in batches of 500 birds each week for meat production. Infrastructure, equipment, feed and operating costs were calculated.
- While demand exceeds supply locally, opportunities exist
To have at least two (and up to six) typical farms for each region.
The first farm is an average sized farm with an average management performance. The second farm is larger than the first one but also having an average management performance, to show economies of scale.
They represent major milk production systems, farms, milk produced in region
International world food day A Presentation By Mr. Allah Dad Khan on 16th Oct...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
The document provides background information on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It details that FAO was founded in 1943 and formally established in 1945 to help countries modernize and improve agriculture, forestry, and fisheries practices. FAO aims to achieve global food security and serves both developed and developing member countries. The document outlines FAO's goals and initiatives to end hunger and malnutrition through sustainable management of natural resources. It also discusses the annual World Food Day celebration and themes related to social protection, agriculture, and breaking the cycle of rural poverty.
1) The Tropical Poultry Genetic Solutions (TPGS) project aims to characterize local chicken ecotypes, develop improved breeding approaches in partnership with other organizations, and test dissemination mechanisms to deliver more productive and adapted poultry breeds to smallholders.
2) TPGS is currently testing chicken lines and crosses from various breeds on farms in Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, and measuring differences in body weight compared to local chickens.
3) Ongoing indigenous chicken breeding programs in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania are employing BLUP to select for increased body weight, egg number, and survival using local ecotypes identified as priorities in each country.
The poultry sector has undergone major structural changes during the past two decades due to the introduction of modern intensive production methods, genetic improvements, improved preventive disease control and biosecurity measures, increasing income and human population, and urbanization
More Details: https://pixelsutra.com/poultry-industry
Global Food Security Challenges and OpportunitiesShenggen Fan
Global food security faces many challenges including volatile food prices, population growth, land and water constraints, climate change, and the increasing demand for biofuels. To address these issues, the document calls for a development agenda with greater support for food security through investments in agriculture, safety nets, land and water productivity, and climate change adaptation. It also emphasizes the crucial role policy research can play in informing investments and policies to promote food security through impacts on areas like poverty reduction, resource allocation, and agricultural technology development and adoption.
The future of sustainable livestock systems in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presented by Shirley Tarawali at the Expert dialogue: The future of sustainable agriculture. Let’s think about… livestock, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 28 June 2022
Livestock marketing and supply chain management of livestock products ILRI
Presented by Steven J. Staal as a keynote address at the 74th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, Maharashtra, India, 18-20 December 2014
The Livestock Sector in India: Progress and Challenges by Vijay Sardana, Poultry Federation of India.
Presented at the ReSAKSS-Asia - MIID conference "Evolving Agrifood Systems in Asia: Achieving food and nutrition security by 2030" on Oct 30-31, 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar.
This Thematic Paper is part of a Toolkit for Project Design (Livestock Thematic Papers: Tools for Project Design) which reflects IFAD’s commitment to developing a sustainable livestock sector in which poor farmers and herders might have higher incomes, and better access to assets, services, technologies and markets.
The paper indents to be a practical tool for development practitioners, project designers and policymakers to define appropriate livestock development interventions. It also provides recommendations on critical issues for rural development and also possible responses and actions to encourage the socio-economic empowerment of poor livestock keepers.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Priority areas of livestock sector for strengthening food and nutrition secur...ILRI
Presented by Tek B. Gurung and Bimal K. Nirmal at the Workshop on transforming livelihoods in South Asia through sustainable livestock research and development, Kathmandu, Nepal, 13-14 November 2018
Climate change poses serious threats to the environment and dairy production in Africa. Dairy production contributes to climate change through feed production, processing, transportation, and enteric methane emissions from cattle. However, climate change also negatively impacts dairy production by shortening growing seasons, causing water scarcity, and increasing heat stress for cattle. To adapt, the dairy industry needs to improve resilience through better herd management, feed strategies, and manure management to mitigate emissions. The future will require more sustainable dairy production to meet increasing demand while protecting the environment.
This document provides recommendations for improving feed resources in Pakistan. It recommends identifying and propagating superior fodder crops with higher yields. It also recommends improving range lands by evaluating local forage species, testing exotic grass varieties, and using water conservation techniques. Additionally, it recommends utilizing agricultural and industrial byproducts for livestock feeding by evaluating them, improving their quality, and providing farmer training. Overall, it stresses the need to better understand nutrient requirements, document available resources, estimate nutrient values, and develop the livestock feed industry in Pakistan.
Water use in Global Dairy Farming Systems and lessons for breeding policies f...SIANI
This presentation was held by N.Sultana & K.J. Peters at the interntional seminar 'Livestock Resources for Food Security in the Light of Climate Change' co-hosted by SIANI and SLU Global in Uppsala on the 11th of March 2016.
The document discusses the concept of livestock units, which provides a standardized way to calculate feed requirements for different types of animals on a farm. A livestock unit is based on the weight of a mature dairy or beef cow, with one dairy cow weighing 400-500kg equaling 1 livestock unit. The carrying capacity of land refers to the amount of forage dry matter it can support per area, while stocking rate is the number of animals on the land relative to its carrying capacity. Calculating livestock units allows farmers to determine the appropriate stocking rate for their land to avoid overgrazing.
Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food SecurityShenggen Fan
This document discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security. It notes that climate change will negatively affect crop and livestock yields through higher temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events. This will lower global food production and increase food prices and malnutrition. Agriculture is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions but can also help mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. The document calls for integrating climate change into strategies to adapt agriculture and ensure food security, such as investing in research, irrigation, drought-resistant crops, and social safety nets.
This document provides an overview of ILRI and the livestock sector. It discusses:
(1) Facts about the growing livestock sector in developing countries, including rising meat consumption and economic opportunities;
(2) ILRI's mission, strategic objectives, and critical success factors to improve food security and reduce poverty through research on livestock;
(3) ILRI's role in the CGIAR Consortium's Livestock and Fish portfolio focusing on sustainable intensification, value chains, and policies; and
(4) Characteristics of ILRI including its integrated research teams, bioscience facilities, staff and resources.
The EAT Lancet Publication: Implications for Nutrition Health and Planetessp2
The document discusses a publication by the EAT-Lancet Commission that aimed to define global scientific targets for healthy diets from sustainable food systems. It established a reference diet of 2500 calories per day consisting of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, plant proteins, unsaturated fats, and limited red meat and sugar. Current diets vary widely from this target. The commission also set planetary boundaries related to greenhouse gas emissions, land and water use, and nutrient flows to define a safe operating space for food production. Global modeling was used to identify combinations of measures needed to meet dietary targets sustainably by 2050, such as shifting diets, reducing food waste, and improving agricultural practices.
Dr. Roger Cady - Sustainability Research Review: EnoughJohn Blue
Sustainability Research Review: Enough - Dr. Roger Cady, Sr. Technical Consultant, Global Sustainability Lead, Elanco, from the 2016 Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), October 5 - 6, 2016, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
More presentations at http://trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2016-global-roundtable-sustainable-beef
This document summarizes research on the sustainability of insect farming and insect-based foods from a Nordic perspective. It discusses the potential for insects to address sustainability challenges like climate change and food security. The document reviews life cycle assessment studies of edible insect production systems and proposes a framework to guide future LCA studies. It also presents the results of an LCA comparing cricket farming to chicken broiler farming in Thailand, finding that broiler production currently has higher environmental impacts but improvements could make cricket farming more sustainable.
Future of food - An initial perspective by Prof. Wayne Bryden, Foundation C...Future Agenda
An initial perspective on the future of food by Prof. Wayne Bryden, Foundation Chair in Animal Science at the University of Queensland. This is the starting point for the global future agenda discussions taking place through 2015 as part of the futureagenda2.0 programme. www.futureagenda.org
Creating a sustainable food future - World Resources InstituteHNF IZZ
This document presents a menu of 22 solutions across 5 courses of action to close the food, land, and greenhouse gas emission gaps projected for 2050. The food gap is estimated at 7,400 trillion calories, the land gap at 593 million hectares, and the GHG mitigation gap at 11 gigatons of CO2 equivalent. The menu includes options to reduce food demand growth, increase food production without expanding agricultural land, protect ecosystems while limiting land-shifting, increase fish supply, and reduce agricultural GHG emissions. Ambitious coordinated action across all areas, including technological innovation, will be needed to achieve a sustainable food future.
This document discusses the need for an "Organic Green Revolution" to transition the world's food systems to organic and regenerative agricultural practices. It argues that the industrial Green Revolution has degraded soils and the environment while failing to solve world hunger. The document summarizes several studies that found organic methods increased yields more than conventional methods in developing countries. It also found organic methods were economically viable for farmers. The document advocates transitioning to organic and regenerative farming practices to address issues of food security, climate change and environmental degradation in a sustainable way.
This document discusses the need for an "Organic Green Revolution" to transition the global food system from unsustainable chemical-intensive farming to organic regenerative agriculture. It argues that organic farming can feed the world while improving soil health, mitigating climate change, and increasing resilience. Studies in Africa found organic yields increased by over 100% compared to chemical-intensive farms. Transitioning to organic farming empowers small farmers, increases global food security, and restores ecological balance by building soil carbon and reducing pollution.
This document discusses the need for an "Organic Green Revolution" to transition the world's food systems to organic and regenerative agriculture. It argues that conventional agriculture is unsustainable and has high environmental and social costs, while organic agriculture can increase yields, build soil health, and provide other benefits. The document summarizes several studies that found organic yields were equal to or higher than conventional yields, especially in developing countries. It advocates that governments and leaders implement policies and practices to transition global agriculture to organic methods in order to adequately feed the world's population and protect the environment.
1. While climate mitigation generally improves agricultural production and food security, not all mitigation strategies have equal impacts on nutrition and food prices. Bioenergy crops and livestock mitigation can increase food prices and hunger.
2. Different mitigation actions also affect nutrition outcomes for vulnerable groups differently. Strategies like biofuels and afforestation increase food insecurity more than others. Livestock mitigation can impact access to animal source foods and women's livelihoods.
3. Changing diets and intentional nutrition policies that incorporate technologies like biofortification can help reduce emissions while retaining nutrition. However, mitigation commitments may worsen nutrition if they do not track these impacts.
Suvi Virtanen: Transformation of Food System for Better HealthTHL
Suvi Virtanen, Research Professor, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, at Europe That Protects - Safeguarding Our Planet, Safeguarding Our Health EU side event, 3-4 Dec 2019, THL, Helsinki
Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a significant transformation in order to meet the related challenges of achieving food security and responding to climate change. Projections based on population growth and food consumption patterns indicate that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet demands by 2050. Most estimates also indicate that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, production stability and incomes in some areas that already have high levels of food insecurity. Developing climate-smart agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. This seminar describe an approach to deal with the above issue viz. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and also examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve this transformation. Building on cases from the field, the seminar try to outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at increase the resilience and productivity of agricultural product systems, while also reducing and removing emissions. A part of the seminar elaborates institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level. Finally, the paper considers current gaps and makes innovative suggestion regarding the combined use of different sources, financing mechanism and delivery systems.
The document discusses how agroforestry can help address major challenges facing agriculture and the environment in the 21st century by helping to meet growing food demands in a sustainable way. It outlines how agroforestry can help reduce poverty and food insecurity, adapt to and mitigate climate change, restore degraded land, and provide ecosystem services. The document calls for integrating agroforestry into agricultural policies to achieve benefits across food production, environmental protection, and rural development.
This document discusses the challenge of sustainably intensifying crop production to meet growing global food demand. While the Green Revolution dramatically increased yields, intensive agriculture has also depleted soils and resources. To double production by 2050 as populations rise, sustainable approaches are needed that produce more using the same land area while conserving ecosystems. This new paradigm is called sustainable crop production intensification.
An international assessment conducted by 400 scientists over 3 years concluded that while agricultural technologies have increased productivity in the past, pesticides and fertilizers now threaten the environmental sustainability of agriculture. Greenpeace and scientists argue that organic agriculture, which emphasizes ecological farming practices, can feed the world through higher organic yields, biological nitrogen fixation, and huge savings on public health and environmental damages. They call for a radical overhaul of agricultural policies to prioritize small farmers and support the transition to more sustainable and ecological farming systems.
Systems Approach to Modelling Food Sustainability: From Concepts to PracticeBioversity International
Systems Approach to Modelling Food Sustainability: From Concepts to Practice - Presentation by Ariella Helfgott. This presentation was given as part of the 'Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems Symposium, co-organized by Bioversity International and CIHEAM-IAMM, November 4th -5th 2014, Agropolis International, Montpellier
Visit 'Metrics of Sustainable Diets and Food Systems' Symposium webpage.
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/metrics-sustainable-diets-symposium/
This document proposes establishing a greenhouse hydroponic system at Skidmore College to achieve sustainable food procurement goals and provide educational opportunities. It discusses the benefits of hydroponics over traditional agriculture such as increased yields, reduced water and land usage, and year-round production. Several other colleges have successfully implemented hydroponic systems. At Skidmore, a small-scale system could supplement the dining hall with local produce and engage students across departments. A student survey found support for a hydroponic project. The document recommends a pilot hydroponic system be installed at the CIS greenhouse to test feasibility and support Skidmore's sustainability and strategic plans.
The Climate Food and Farming (CLIFF) Research Network is an international research network that helps to expand young researchers' knowledge and experience working on climate change mitigation in smallholder farming. CLIFF provides grants for selected doctoral students to work with CGIAR researchers affiliated with the Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) project.
This presentation is UQuantifying mitigation potential in livestock systems and was made by Jacobo Arango from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
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Science-fiction or science-fact? Research for sustainable livestock agri-food systems
1. Better lives through livestock
Science-fiction or science-fact?
Research for sustainable
livestock agri-food systems
Jimmy Smith
Director General, International Livestock Research Institute
TropAg 2022 Keynote presentation
02 November 2022
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands
on which we meet today and pay my respect to their Ancestors and their descendants.
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Key messages
Multiple and contrasting metrics are used for some key
livestock-related development parameters—nutrition,
climate change, environment
Demand for food, especially livestock-derived food, is likely
to sky-rocket, but that food will have to be produced using
the same resource base while mitigating potential harms
Metrics about livestock
can be confusing
Science solutions are
needed to address
challenges and transform
livestock agri-food
systems
Science must help clarify
the evidence and facts to
inform decision-making
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Where one stands on livestock issues is a function of where one sits
Let’s not allow our different perspectives to detract from the immense task at hand
that we all agree with—ensuring sustainable healthy diets—for everyone
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Demand for food
will keep growing
Projections based on IMPACT
model, Dolapo Enahoro (ILRI)
• Demand for milk, meat, eggs is increasing fastest
in LMICs driven by population, rising incomes
and urbanization
• Not based on significant over-consumption in
LMICs (attention: ‘double burden’)
• 70% of livestock-derived foods consumed in
LMICs are
• Produced on small-scale farms
• Sourced in informal markets
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….. because of their high nutritional value, livestock-derived foods are essential to the
diets of infants and young children, especially in low-resource settings. For other groups, such
as those that eat high amounts of livestock-derived foods, consumption should be reduced to
improve health and lessen environmental impacts.
……………………to achieve sustainable healthy diets for all, any consideration of
livestock-derived foods must take into account evidence-based, integrated solutions that
incorporate diversity and equity. …….
NUTRITION: Contrasting livestock metrics can cause CONFUSION
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NUTRITION: Science evidence helps inform decision-making
Science can inform
national nutrition
guidelines on the
roles animal-
source foods can
and should play in
providing healthy,
balanced and
nutritious diets
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FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO. 2022. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022.
Repurposing food and agricultural policies to make healthy diets more affordable. Rome, FAO. https://doi.org/10.4060/cc0639en
More—not
less—animal-
source foods
are needed in
more than half
of the world’s
regions today to
achieve a ‘least
cost healthy
diet’
Current consumption levels of
“high-priority” foods are on average
less than 80 percent of the
recommended level to adhere to a
least cost healthy diet
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NUTRITION: Livestock research solutions address GLOBAL CHALLENGES
• Provide technical and policy
solutions to improve access,
availability and affordability of
animal-source foods for those
who need them most
• ‘De-risk’ the traditional (informal)
food markets of lower income
countries to ensure that meat,
milk, eggs and other fresh foods
are safe from food-borne diseases
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NUTRITION: Livestock research addresses child stunting
Vaccinating rural poultry flocks
against Newcastle disease and
supporting animal health
technicians to deliver the
vaccines:
• enhances poultry productivity
• enhances household well-
being
• significantly reduces stunting
of both girls and boys
Otiang, E. et al., 2022:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2122389119
Photo of rural poultry household children
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? Different boundaries used for live cycle assessments result in
different results for of greenhouse gas emissions
? There are different ways to measure methane emissions (e.g.
GWP100 or GWP* for measuring the global warming potential)
? Different reports focus on different functional units (e.g. the amount
of food or protein or nutrients produced in relation to greenhouse
gas emissions)
? Considerable variation in reports of livestock impacts on carbon
sequestration
CLIMATE: Contrasting livestock metrics can cause CONFUSION
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Australian sheep meat, 2018: kg CO2 eq per kg protein
Using GWP100 or GWP* to measure methane gives very different results
Ridoutt, B., 2021. Short communication: climate impact of Australian livestock production assessed using the GWP* climate metric.
Livestock Science 246,. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2021.104459 104459
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Measuring greenhouse gas emissions according to functional unit
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Tessari, P. et al. Essential amino acids: master regulators of nutrition and environmental footprint? Sci. Rep. 6, 26074; doi: 10.1038/srep26074 (2016).
Greenhouse gas emissions per 100g edible product
Greenhouse gas emissions to meet recommended
daily amount of essential amino acids
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Henderson, B.B. et al. 2015. Greenhouse gas mitigation potential of the world’s grazing lands: Modeling soil carbon and nitrogen
fluxes of mitigation practices. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 207, 91–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2015.03.029
Multiple factors impact on carbon sequestration in grazing lands
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CLIMATE: Science evidence helps inform decision-making
Global efforts, e.g.:
• Global Research Alliance on
Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA)
• Livestock Environmental Assessment
and Performance (LEAP)
Regional and local initiatives, e.g.:
Research by ILRI’s Mazingira Centre conducts
the first reliable assessments of African and
Kenyan livestock-generated greenhouse gas
emissions
Emission Factors based on experiments
conducted at Mazingira informed the IPCC
database
https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/122005?show=full
https://www.ilri.org/news/recent-progress-and-future-priorities-greenhouse-gas-emissions-livestock-africa
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GHGs from different livestock systems need different solutions
Dairy system characterization and emissions
GHG
emission
intensity
(kg
CO
2
eq
per
kg
FPCM)
Productivity
(kg FPCM per cow per year)
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• Improve livestock production efficiencies via
Health
Genetics
Feeds
• Identify genetic opportunities to breed low-methane livestock
• Identify genetic opportunities to breed heat-tolerant livestock
• Explore feed additives that reduce livestock methane emissions
• Manage manure for lower GHG emissions
• Determine the impacts of livestock diseases on GHG emissions
CLIMATE: Livestock research solutions address GLOBAL CHALLENGES
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• Milk yields decline when cows
are under heat stress, and heat
stress is rising under climate change
• Evidence of genetic variations among
bulls makes possible improved breeding
programs that select ‘climate-tolerant’
animals that maintain good milk yields
under heat stress while reducing their
greenhouse gas intensity
CLIMATE: Livestock research addresses the genetics of heat tolerance
Ekine-Dzivenu C. et al., 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2020.104314
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CLIMATE: Livestock research addresses carbon sequestration in
rangelands
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grazing management
legume introduction
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Yongfei Bai & M Francesca Cotrufo. 2022. Grassland soil carbon sequestration: Current understanding, challenges, and solutions Science 377, 603–608
Nancy L Harris et al. 2021. Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes. Nature Climate Change volume 11, pages 234–240
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WATER: Contrasting livestock metrics can cause CONFUSION
This global average is mixing:
• Green water (rainfall) with blue water
(surface water)
• Intensive production (feedlots) with
extensive production (pastoralist)
livestock systems
• Whole lifecycles with component parts
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Source: Rangelands Atlas, 2021
LAND: Contrasting livestock metrics can cause CONFUSION
? Livestock use over half the
world’s land
Total terrestrial surface 148
million sq km
21% livestock only
24% livestock supports crop
production
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Inedible by humans
86%
Could be eaten by humans
14%
6 billion tonnes dry feed Feed production
10%
Grassland that
could be
converted for
crops
14%
Pastures/rangelands -
not suitable for crops
27%
Crop agriculture
49%
5 billion ha global agricultural area
LAND: Livestock research addresses GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Anne Mottet, Cees de Haan, Alessandra Falcucci, Giuseppe Tempio, Carolyn Opio, Pierre Gerber. 2017. Livestock:
On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/ food debate. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.01.001
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LAND: Livestock research addresses rangeland management
Participatory rangeland
management and
participatory grazing planning
with local communities is
helping to rehabilitate
rangeland ecosystems, to
secure land tenure and to
increase the resilience of
pastoralist communities
Waweru, T. et al. 2021. Independent impact assessment report: Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM)
in Kenya and Tanzania. Nairobi, Kenya: African Research and Economic Development Consultants Limited.
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LAND: Livestock research addresses feed challenges
The straw and stover by-products of crop
production make up more than half of livestock
feed resources in lower income countries
Research on cereal, legume and tuber crops
shows that genetic variation in their livestock
feed traits can be exploited to increase livestock
productivity by 15–25% with little to no trade-offs
in grain yields
Superior ‘dual-purpose’ (feed as well as food)
crops are now being bred to make their residues
more nourishing for cattle, goats and sheep
Blümmel, M et al. 2020. Recent advances in dual-purpose rice and wheat research: A synthesis.
Field Crops Research, 253, 107823 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/108077
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Key messages
Multiple and contrasting metrics are used for some key livestock-related
development parameters—nutrition, climate change, environment
Demand for food, especially livestock-derived food, is likely to sky-rocket, but that
food will have to be produced using the same resource base while mitigating
potential harms
Let’s not allow our different perspectives to detract from the immense task at
hand that we all agree with… sustainable healthy diets, ….for every citizen….
We still need this graphic to make the point about contrasting messages. There are two things here – the data and its use/mis use; and the messaging about asfs. It’s a really good example of the standing and sitting….
FAO 14.5% of global GHGs from livestock most often quoted. Some studies as low as 6%, others as high as 50% or more
GWP100 vs GWP*…taking account of CH4 shorter lifetime 12 yrs for methane. Essentially GWP* more accurately measures ‘warming potential’ than emissions as measured by GWP100.
Australian sheep meat: GWP100 10.3MMt co2 eq in 2018 (+67 kg co2 eq/kg protein). Using GWP* removal of 2.85mtco2 (-18.5 kg cot eq/kg protein). GWP criticized for giving unfair advantage to countries with historically high methane emissions
Annabel is right it’s the confusion that leads to multiple – very different metrics. So showing these contrasting things is useful. We do need to find a way of showing the issue of functional unit.
I can do an infographic showing the breakdown of methane into water vapour and carbon dioxide and the fluctuation of its warming effect over its lifespan.
Useful sources:
Addresses GWP for methane https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog/methane-gwp100-not-measuring
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warming-potentials
- A helpful explainer of GWP* https://clear.ucdavis.edu/explainers/gwp-star-better-way-measuring-methane-and-how-it-impacts-global-temperatures and also contains a nice clear descriptor - Methane should be treated a temporary pulse, rather than a constant agent of warming. Emissions will cause warming for about 12 years before dropping once again. GWP100 does not account for the fluctuations of flow gases in the atmosphere
Top: When GHG emissions from the livestock and transport sectors are calculated using the same measurements (direct emissions) livestock emissions are just 1/3 that of transportation
Bottom: Comparing livestock direct and indirect emissions to transport direct emissions only is a flawed ‘apples to oranges’ comparison. (Note that no life cycle assessment has been made of the transport sector)
Yes, an infographic on this from Annabel.
Infographic needs tidying up. Must include mention of variables affecting water footprint – feed, breed type, farming system
Should also include the origin of the 15,000 litre, saying it is an average from 3 types of farming system, and 4 different countries.
https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/what-is-water-footprint/: definitions of green, blue, grey water footprints
Anne Mottet, Cees de Haan, Alessandra Falcucci, Giuseppe Tempio, Carolyn Opio, Pierre Gerber. 2017. Livestock: On our plates or eating at our table? A new analysis of the feed/ food debate. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.01.001