CGIAR Research Program on Livestock Agri-Food Systems - Livestock

Overview: FP4 - Livestock and the Environment

FP3 - FP5


Leader Polly Ericksen, International Livestock Research Institute - ILRI

Team members: 12
Partner organizations: 8

Budget 2026
USD : 0

Clusters: 3

  Description
    
This flagship: a. Aims to secure the essential role of livestock in ensuring nutritional security and contributing to poverty reduction for a growing population, in the context of ongoing global change, by reducing the environmental footprint of the livestock production, b. Aims to ensure that livestock continue to enhance the ecosystem services necessary to sustain productivity and improve resilience to global environmental changes, c. Fills a unique role by contributing evidence to the global debate in livestock and the environment that is specific to the developing world and to poor and vulnerable small-scale producers undergoing either fragile or more rapid market-oriented growth, d. Uses field research to develop and test context- specific solutions that minimize the trade-offs between increasing productivity, enhancing ecosystem services, reducing environmental footprints, and adapting the expected environmental change, e. Works with partners and stakeholders to enhance evidence-based decision -making at household, community and policy levels, informing global debates and models so they better apply to developing country contexts.
  Key Documents
    
  Atlas
    
  Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs)/Sub-IDOs
    
IDO
  • Sub-IDO
      Indicators

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3.1-Natural Capital enhanced and protected especially from climate change
3.2-Enhanced benefit from ecosystem goods and services.
3.3-More sustainably managed agro-ecosystems
A.1-Mitigation and adaption achieved
B.1-Equity and inclusion achieved
  Clusters
    
Code Cluster Name Leader Co-leader View
FP4-1 Assess the environmental sustainability and adaptability of livestock production technologies An Notenbaert
FP4-2 Optimize natural resources use and enhance the provision of ecosystem services Lutz Merbold
FP4-3 Develop and support improved institutions and other governance mechanisms for environmental solutions Lance W. Robinson
  Projects
    
Acronym Project Title Year Section Leader Center Budget Start Date End Date View
  Personnel Involved
    
  Partners