LEAD Livestock, Environment and Development - Virtual Research and Development Centre

LEAD (Livestock, Environment And Development) targets the protection and enhancement of natural resources which are affected by livestock production and processing and also focuses on poverty reduction and public health enhancement through appropriate forms of livestock development.

	10 August 2007	NABARD - NDDB joint initiative - a boost to Dairy industry
	17 July 2007	Bt Cotton impact on Livestock
	23 February 2007	Importance of livestock sector stressed upon
	23 February 2007	Lack of breeding policy responsible for declining milk production-Jharkhand
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REGIONAL WORKSHOP: LIVESTOCK AND GLOBAL WARMING ON ANDEAN ECOSYSTEMS
13 October 2008 - 14 October 2008

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The "Livestock’s long shadow - environmental issues and options" report (H. Steinfeld, P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Castel, M. Rosales, C. de Haan - 2006, 390 pp) aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment is based on the most recent and complete data available, taking into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feed crop agriculture required for livestock production. The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.
Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost.

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Livestock a major threat to environment (FAO Newsroom - 29 November 2006)

Livestock impacts on the environment: the challenge is to reconcile demands for animal food products and environmental services (Magazine FAO Agriculture 21, Spotlight)

LEAD E-conference: Maintaining mobility and managing drought - Policy options for pastoral livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
From 18th October to 13th December 2006
The goal of this e-conference is to discuss and review two policy options papers “Community Based Drought Management for the Pastoral Livestock Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa” and “Investing in Maintaining Mobility in Pastoral Systems of the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa” that have been written for the ALIVE multi-actor Partnership. The main purpose of these policy option papers is to inform African policy makers and decision makers in international aid and financial institutions on the latest developments in key areas important for pro-poor livestock development, and provide them with common and shared options on how to address them.



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