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
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5.
- 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
- 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
6.
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.
- 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
11.
- March 2006 scoping meeting
- December 2006 global consultation
- Development of responses section
- March 2010 publication launch
- 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
12.
- Working and learning together to generate a comprehensive
assessment
- 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)
- Emerging livestock diseases
- Social smallholder capacity to participate not maintain at any
cost
- To complement with illustrations of on going diversity and
changes in different regions covering both developed and developing
countries and industrial livestock production
13.
- 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