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Investing in Sustainable Livestock: Guide & Tool

A comprehensive guide and tool for investing in sustainable livestock production systems, addressing global food challenges and promoting environmental sustainability, public health, and equity. It provides streamlined guidance, literature analysis, consultations, and content development to facilitate informed decision-making.

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Investing in Sustainable Livestock: Guide & Tool

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  1. INVESTING IN SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK GUIDE & TOOL Carolyn Opio | Pierre Gerber July 9th, 2019

  2. Global food challenges • Growing global population • 3 billion people will join the middle class:1.8 billion (2009) to 4.9 billion (2030) • Increasing demand for animal protein • 50-70% more animal source foods in next 30 years • Feed more with less resources • Global resource crisis – resource scarcity, climate change DEMAND VARIABILITY time RESOURCES

  3. Sustainability concerns Drivers Population growth GDP growth Urbanization Globalization Growing demand for livestock products Livestock sector transformation Intensification Structural change Movement Concerns over sustainability

  4. Concerns over sustainability Opportunities and challenges Healthy and nutritious diets The first 1,000 days of life Protein and calorific uptake Food security, at a number of scales Food for people versus feed for animals Food loss and food waste

  5. Concerns over sustainability Opportunities and challenges Diverseproducts and services beyond food and nutrition Contributions to economic growth Role in poverty reduction Enhancing resilience Agricultural heritage and countryside stewardship Production efficiency Market access Equity - children, youth and women Alternative and new employment opportunities

  6. Concerns over sustainability Opportunities and challenges Costs of animal diseases Burden of food-borne diseases Zoonoses Emerging disease Pandemic threats Animal welfare Use and abuse of antimicrobials

  7. Concerns over sustainability Opportunities and challenges Natural resource use and ecosystem services Land use change and land degradation Fertilizer and pesticide use in feed production Carbon capture in forests and pastures GHG emissions Resource use efficiency and nutrient cycling Biodiversity Water use

  8. FAO’S WORK ON SUSTAINABLE LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT • Strengthening the knowledge and evidence base - support the generation, application, and dissemination of knowledge to strengthen the capacity to address the sustainability of the sector • Developing tools to support investment in sector and improve capacity to address MRV requirements (GHG Inventories, NAMAs, NDCs) and identifying practices and management options. e.g. GLEAM, Investment guide and tool • Leveraging of global partnerships and processes: multi-stakeholder partnerships among countries, the private sector, academia and civil society

  9. Investment in livestock production • Various sources : • Livestock sector companies • Smallholders and SMEs • International Financial Institutions • Official Development Assistance • Philanthropies and NGOs • Investing in: • Productive assets • Research • Education and knowledge • Policies

  10. ISL Guide & Tool Both a practical tool and an information resource forbuilding sustainable livestock production systems Environment, public health, equity

  11. Challenge How do we contribute to the development of societies while promoting environmental sustainability? > Livestock production can have positive and negative impacts on natural resources, climate, public health and equity > Improvement of production practices requires systematic attention Transition headline

  12. Opportunity: Working with investors Decisions made during project design and implementation determine the direction and magnitude of impact that livestock development has on the environment, public health and equity Most of the decision-making power regarding the sustainability of the sector lies in the hands of investors and project teams

  13. Goal Transition headline To enable systematic consideration of environmental, public health and equity objectives, and related activities, in the design and implementation of livestock projects Compatible and connected with other tools and guidance: the portal for addressing environmental, public health and equity sustainability in livestock operations

  14. Streamlined guidance This tool proposes a structured approach to guide project teams at design and implementation stages It decomplexifies sustainability issues, addresses tradeoffs, and provides streamlined (integrated) guidance

  15. Preparation process: 3 stages Webtool development Work with editors, designers, and web developers to build the online platform Place emphasis on creating an engaging tool that streamlines layers of insight into a user-friendly platform Literature analysis and consultations Review of current literature Consultations through 5 learning/sharing events organized with over 100 potential users Discussions with livestock teams across organizations, with a dedicated task team appointed by GASL Contentdevelopment Write and develop content with references and links to additional information resources Simplify and condense information to make the guide easy to use, without losing accuracy Definition of 7 principles of environmental sustainability

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