Second multi-stakeholder platform meeting to continue the building of a Global Agenda of Action in support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development

Phuket, Thailand - December 1to 4, 2011

The purpose of this second multi-stakeholder platform meeting was to continue the building of a Global Agenda of Action in support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development.

Participants endorsed three priority areas Closing the efficiency gap, Restoring value to grasslands, and Waste to worth and further developed their focus and priority actions.

They also agreed on the Phuket roadmap which sets the next steps in consolidating the Agenda.

Participants also emphasized the importance of the overarching focus of the Agenda, whilst accentuating the vast diversity of the sector and local specificities and the need to focus on actions where the Agenda has a comparative advantage and when it adds significant value.

The meeting was organized by the Royal Thai Government’s Department of Livestock Development and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, and was hosted by the Royal Thai Government.