Presentation by Shirley Tarawali at the 'launch of publication and way forward workshop', Switzerland, 4-5 March 2010 Book information: http://www.islandpress.com/bookstore/details.php?prod_id=1950
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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
12.
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?
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
13.
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