Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Fiona Flintan

International Livestock Research Institute
Ethiopia

Dear Madam/Sir,

Firstly I would like to congratulate you on a very comprehensive and interesting document, and I am sure will strongly take forward understanding and attention for agroecological approaches and other innovations for sustainable agriculture and food systems.

However, having read through the document though it does mention livestock as a food commodity/food-based system, and though pastoralists are mentioned as a stakeholder with other local stakeholders, I do feel that there is a general lack of attention to livestock and to agroecological approaches that have livestock (and particularly extensive livestock systems) at their core. including i) mixed crop-livestock systems, and ii) pastoralism (and rangelands as part of this).

Here you can find two articles that raise the linkages between pastoralism (in particular) and food security and nutrition that you you may find of interest, written by myself and a colleague, as well as other articles by colleagues at ILRI linking livestock production and nutrition.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780081005965215291?via%3Dihub

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780081005965215461

I am happy to give further input if required.

Best wishes,

Fiona

Fiona Flintan | Senior Scientist-Rangelands Governance including coordinator of ILC Rangelands Initiative-Global Component,

International Livestock Research Institute |ilri.org