Animal sourced foods (ASFs) provide important livelihood opportunities and vital nutrient-dense nourishment for hundreds of millions of people around the world. While livelihood systems based on livestock are highly sensitive to the impacts of climate change, their GHG footprint, especially for ruminants, also implicates such systems as big drivers of global warming. Addressing this nexus requires an appreciation of the complex relationships between the unique place of ASFs in nutritional security, livelihoods, climate change adaptation and mitigation. This session brings together innovative CGIAR research for development on livestock systems with a forward-looking perspective on how to create unified research and development agendas that address the many facets of livestock and climate issues. The session will conclude with comments from partners and introduce the Livestock and Climate Solutions Hub as a framing for accelerated scaling of technologies, practices and approaches that maximise the co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation.
