- Multi-stakeholder meetings
- Focus Area Workshop
- Webinars
- Others
- Virtual Side Event during 1st Session of the COAG Sub-Committee on Livestock , 17 March 2022
- COP25 FAO-GASL Side Event, Madrid, Spain, 12 December 2019
- CFS Side Event, Rome, Italy, 15 October 2019
- International Congress on Silvopastoral Systems, AsunciĆ³n, Paraguay, 26-27 September 2019
- MSP content workshop, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA, 5-6 March 2019
- Guiding Group Meeting, FAO, Rome, Italy, 26-27 February 2019
- GFFA workshop: Sustainable livestock goes digital
- COAG side event 'AMR in Livestock: Innovation and the Role of GASL', Rome, Italy, 3 October 2018
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, Italy, 2-3 October 2018
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, Italy 6-7 March 2018
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, Italy 30 September 2016
- Guiding Group Meeting, Panama City, Panama, 23 June 2016
- Guiding Group Meeting, Rome, italy 12-13 April 2016
- Guiding Group Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland 16-17 September 2015
- Outreach Event: Livestock in Sustainable Development, 17 September 2015
- Guiding Group Workshop, Rome, Italy 27-28 April 2015
- Investing in Sustainable Livestock. Fribourg, Switzerland , 4-5 June 2014
- Global Forum for Food and Agriculture. Berlin, Germany 1-18 January 2014
- Civil Society Dialogue. Ahmedabad, India, 27-29 September 2013
- Multi-Stakeholder Action for Sustainable Livestock. Rome, Italy 17 June 2013
- Interim Preparatory Committee Meetings 2011-2012
- Workshop: Turning the Agenda into Concrete Action. Rome, Italy 18 September 2012
- Briefing to the FAO Perm reps. Rome, Italy 8 February 2012
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Multi-Stakeholder Action for Sustainable Livestock
SIDE-EVENT DURING THE 38TH FAO CONFERENCE
17 June, 2013 - Rome, Italy
With an increasing world population, growing scarcity of natural resources, and accelerating climate change, the road towards sustainable food security is increasingly challenging.
Given the size and complexity of the task, joining forces is a necessity. FAO and its partners are, therefore, working together in new ways to address sustainability in food and agriculture.
The livestock sector exemplifies the existing challenges towards sustainability and the necessity for joint action: it not only needs to supply growing amounts of safe food and support rural livelihoods, but it must also deal with growing resource scarcity and reduce its environmental footprint. From industrial poultry to dryland pastoralism, livestock systems face highly diverse challenges that require different responses. Such actions need to reconcile the requirements of a wide array of different stakeholders, and to provide benefits to all.
Already, stakeholders are joining hands to make livestock more sustainable. Novel forms of partnership are being developed around the world, and dialogue is at the heart of such partnerships. Capitalizing on the strength of different actors, dialogue enhances the understanding of development issues. But more importantly, consensus can be build amongst all concerned on the path towards sustainable food security. It forms the basis for stakeholder commitments to action and on-the-ground improvements.
One example of this new way of operating is the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustain-able Livestock Sector Development, supported by FAO. This partnership of key representa-tives from governments, the private sector, civil society and academia, aims to catalyze and guide the continuous improvement of livestock sector practices.
In delivering on its strategic objectives, FAO is eager to learn from new and existing partner-ships, and to engage in new ways. At this side-event, selected experiences on novel forms of stakeholder dialogue and action-orientated partnerships will be shared and discussed. This will help inform Conference Delegates, and assist FAO to develop more effective partnerships for sustainability in food and agriculture.