Category Archives: Environment

One-size-fits-all ‘livestock less’ measures will not serve some one billion smallholder livestock farmers and herders
Advocacy / Biodiversity / Communications / Crop-Livestock / Environment / Food Security / Nutrition / Opinion piece / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock

One-size-fits-all ‘livestock less’ measures will not serve some one billion smallholder livestock farmers and herders

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Once again, the debate on sustainable diets and in particular on (not) eating animal-derived products is resurfacing in the media, as illustrated most recently by an article in The Guardian. The paper reported on a study by J. Poore and T. Nemecek entitled ‘Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers’, published in the latest edition of Science magazine. Continue reading →

Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not
Advocacy / Consumption / Environment / Food Security / Livelihoods / Nutrition / Opinion piece / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Vulnerability

Why livestock belong on the table—whether we eat meat or not

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Berhe Tekola, director of the Animal Production and Health Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this weekpublished an opinion piece in the Bangkok Post (25 Jun 2018), reminds readers that livestock are integral to the fabric of life in many developing countries. Continue reading →

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘the single biggest way’ to harm poor livestock herders
Advocacy / Climate Change / Consumption / Directorate / Drylands / Environment / Food Security / ILRIComms / Knowledge and Information / Nutrition / Opinion piece / Pastoralism / Policy / Pro-Poor Livestock / Rangelands / Vulnerability

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘the single biggest way’ to harm poor livestock herders

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Below are excerpts of a response to a new livestock report made by Ilse Köhler-Rollefson, a German veterinarian and researcher who is an expert on camels and camel herding societies. Continue reading →

Research and awareness raising increase demand for cassava peel-based chicken feeds in Nigeria
Animal Feeding / Article / Chickens / Crop residues / Environment / FFD / Livelihoods / LIVESTOCKCRP / Nigeria / Pro-Poor Livestock / Research / RTB / West Africa

Research and awareness raising increase demand for cassava peel-based chicken feeds in Nigeria

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Hundreds of Nigerian chicken farmers in the southwestern state of Oyo have expressed interest in using cassava mash in poultry feeds. In two meetings of the Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) in late March 2018, many farmers said they feel they may have found a viable low-cost high-quality alternative in the cassava mash. Continue reading →

Mobile pastoralism—A 10,000-year-old practice still robust, if threatened, in the Mediterranean today
Biodiversity / Cattle / Climate Change / Environment / Europe / Goats / Pastoralism / Policy / Rangelands / Sheep / Small Ruminants

Mobile pastoralism—A 10,000-year-old practice still robust, if threatened, in the Mediterranean today

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Mobile Pastoralism in the Mediterranean: Arguments and evidence for policy reform and its role in combating climate change presents over 100 arguments detailing the benefits of mobile pastoralism to biodiversity, carbon storage, wildfire prevention, climate change, food security and quality, traditional ecological knowledge, rural economies, tourism—to name a few. Continue reading →