Livestock, Climate, and System Resilience

This Initiative aims to address the "double burden" that climate change poses to livestock production in Africa and Latin America. Researchers are working with public and private actors to identify existing solutions and to co-create and deliver innovations that will measurably help producers, businesses and governments adapt livestock agri-food systems to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This objective will be achieved by: Enhancing local capacities and inclusion in livestock production through biometric and socio-economic analysis of proposed on-farm technology packages to support inclusive scale-up of resilient low-emission practices; Developing digital services to manage climate risk and inform decision making in livestock agri-food systems by co-designing, testing and scaling up digitally enabled services that bring together tailored climate information, risk transfer and credit strategies; Undertake system-level research and interventions for climate-resilient, low-emissions livestock production systems, focusing on understanding, measuring and rebuilding climate resilience within pastoral systems, with research-to-development partnerships that optimize scaling up as a priority; Help finance the transition to resilient, low-emissions livestock agri-food systems by creating a research agenda that builds awareness and investor confidence in livestock investments with stated resilience and emissions targets; Improve the policy environment by generating data and developing systems to improve the design and implementation of policies and investment proposals at national and global levels, and help governments monitor and quantify livestock contributions to climate commitments.