The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock is ready for its annual meeting!#LivestockAgenda
The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock
Reporting on GASL 2018, in Ulaanbattaar, Mongolia
Photo via @RuaraidhPThe Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock
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Despite its major role in global development, the livestock sector receives just 3% of official development assistance from major donor countries #LivestockAgenda For more: bit.ly/2slwfhm
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#ICYMI Global Agenda supports Mongolian Agenda for Sustainable Livestock to introduce sustainable development principles for livestock and herders. #LivestockAgenda Read more:
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#LivestockAgenda Ernesto Reyes, economic growth for smallholders needs to learn from past using sustainability principles. @IFADnews @GaLivestock
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#livestockagenda GASL meeting just wrapped up in Mongolia. The hosts were superb - thank you! I strongly feel the private sector has a lot to share with the agenda. @GaLivestock
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"Poverty & hunger eradication are among the greatest global challenges facing the world today...The livestock sector must move in the right direction to become ever more productive & sustainable.” Priorities from #LivestockAgenda thepigsite.com/swinenews/4507
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#DYK There are nearly 200 million pastoralists in the world producing food and generating incomes from livestock where crop farming is limited, risky or impossible. WhyLivestockMatter.org #WhyLivestockMatter #LivestockAgenda
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Updates on our work in the global livestock advocacy for development project: Informing and influencing sustainable livestock investments and announcing new website whylivestockmatter.org #whylivestockmatter #LivestockAgenda hdl.handle.net/10568/93182
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See the presentation at hdl.handle.net/10568/93182 #whylivestockmatter twitter.com/ILRI/status/10
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Over the last 30 years, consumption of meat, milk and eggs in developing countries has more than tripled. Making livestock sustainable is more important than ever. #LivestockAgenda
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#LivestockAgenda Antonio Rota in livelihoods & economic growth panel at GASL Mongolia meeting. The challenge is how to reach the poorest producers in sustainable livestock development. @IFADnews @GaLivestock
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@GaLivestock @DFIDAgResearch @IFADnews @FAOAnimalHealth
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For five days, #LivestockAgenda has discussed #WhyLivestockMatter - now let's spread the word! RT and visit: whylivestockmatter.org
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Successful research requires focusing on the drivers of livestock productivity – health, genetics and feed – within the broader environmental and socio-economic context, says Tom Randolph, at #GASL18
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But there is a lot we do know. Livestock plays a critical role in:
Economic growth and sustainable livelihoods;
Gender & women’s empowerment;
Animal and human health; and
Nutrition (esp. in the first 1,000 days)
#LivestockAgenda
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Our new website aims to provide a one-stop shop for information about why global livestock matter: whylivestockmatter.org.
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LIVESTOCK contribute:
~40% of agricultural GDP
livelihoods for ~1.3 billion people, especially rural women
3 of 7 "essential" food groups for infants
12% of fertilizer for crop production (manure)
WhyLivestockMatter.org
#WhyLivestockMatter
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Coming up today at #GASL18: Shirley Tarawali, Michael Hoevel and Peter Ballantyne discuss the challenges and opportunities of informing and influencing the public and policymakers on livestock investments. #LivestockAgenda
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Mongolian throat singing! The performer produces a fundamental pitch and, simultaneously, one or more pitches over that. #MongolianCulture #LivestockAgenda #GASL18 #ThroatSinging
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Tom Randolph, the director of the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, speaks at #GASL18 today about how livestock research can contribute to a well-nourished, equitable and environmentally healthy world #LivestockAgenda
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What makes livestock different? discusses how the #LivestockAgenda is on the move at #GASL18: livestockdialogue.org/index.php?id=9