Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D)

Livestock Photo Contest 2025 - COMMUNITY CHOICE AWARDS. Cast your vote on LD4D's LinkedIn page!

🏆 Community Choice Awards: Vote for Your Favourite Photo!

The jury of the LD4D’s Livestock Photo Competition has spoken, and now it's YOUR turn!

📸 Which picture speaks to you?

Have your say on LD4D's LinkedIn post : www.linkedin.com/posts/ld4d_c...

We've refreshed how we welcome members to the LD4D Network! New webpages & a comprehensive Welcome Toolkit.

Best part? It's available to ALL members, not just new ones. Because everyone deserves to make the best of their membership. 🎉

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LD4D Annual Meeting 2025: Expanding Collective Action for Sustainable Livestock Thursday 4 December 2025 from 14:00 to 15:30 (UK time)Online

📢 3 weeks until LD4D Annual Meeting 2025! (4 Dec, 2-3:30pm UK time)

Early response has been fantastic. And there's still plenty of time to register!

Join us for Community building, Solutions Group & Consultations updates.

Register: livestockdata.org/events/LD4D2...

🌍 LD4D Annual Meeting 2025 – 4 Dec, 2-3:30pm UK time (virtual)

Celebrating new Solutions Groups, the Digital Innovations roadmap & our growing community.

For members, decision makers & partners interested in evidence-based livestock development.

Register: livestockdata.org/events/LD4D2...

co-hosted with @ccacoalition.bsky.social feat. experts from @ilri.org @envdefensefund.bsky.social @giz.de, @ifad.org Gov Kenya and Global Methane Hub

🛣️ 🐮 This Thursday: From Strategy to Action on Digital Services for Livestock Methane Reduction

Join us October 30 | 14:00–15:30 UK Time as we explore bridge the gap between ambitious climate goals and on-the-ground reality.

Register now: edin.ac/43qMBr9
Access the roadmap: edin.ac/3VUq02p

Save the date! LD4D Annual Meeting 2025

📅 4 Dec, 14:00-15:30 GMT

Registration opens in November.

We look forward to meeting everyone to reflect on last year’s achievements, hear from global livestock experts, and celebrate our network.

🔗 Read more: edin.ac/4mshQca

#SustainableLivestock

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📢 Advancing Gender & Social Inclusion in #LivestockDevelopment 🐄🌱

Missed our Gender & Livestock Data CoP conversation? Watch the webinars and enjoy engaging presentations from leading experts!
📽️ Watch here: edin.ac/42AUPNn

Join the Community: 🔗 edin.ac/3EID8C3

#SustainableLivestock #WomenInAg

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📽️Webinar recordings available📽️
🌱Carbon Credits in Livestock Webinar Series🌱

✳️ Part 1: Lessons from Brazil
🔗 lnkd.in/eFSfv8q5
✳️ Part 2: Opportunities in Ghana and Nigeria
🔗 edin.ac/4181Wv9

🍿 Watch Today!

#Sustainability #CarbonCredits #Livestock #ClimateAction

We’re at the @fao.org Global Forum on Animal Feed and Feed Regulators!
Day 1 is just getting started 🎉

Come by and say hi! 👋 We’re here and ready to answer your questions about our latest outputs, including:

📚 Publications
📊 Investment roadmaps
🖥️ Dashboards

#SustainableLivestock #OneHealth

📢 Missed our recent webinar?

📽️ Catch the recording and explore key insights from a capacity development program strengthening the role of private sector veterinary paraprofessionals (VPPs) in sub-Saharan Africa’s animal health sector.

Watch here: 🔗 edin.ac/4hLIIS2

#AnimalHealth #WomenInAg

Attending the FAO Conference on #SustainableLivestock Transformation? 🐮

Visit our booth & explore the dashboard ‘Navigate Socio-Environmental Assessment Tools for Agri-Food Systems. Our team is there to answer your questions!

🤝 Can't come?
🔗 View it online: edin.ac/4gstrGR

#ClimateFinance

We’re at the FAO Conference on #SustainableLivestock Transformation🌍🐄 — come say hi! 😊

Swing by our booth to:
✅ Discover our work
🔎 Explore our new dashboard
🙋 Get your questions answered
🎉 Join our quiz & win prizes!

Visit our website:
🔗 livestockdata.org

#OneHealth #ClimateFinance #Gender

A diverse group of smiling people stands on a white stairway. The photo is of the members of the LD4D Solutions Group on Digital Services for Livestock Methane Management, taken at a workshop in Bonn, Germany in June 2025.

Thanks to our authors!
@ccacoalition.bsky.social @mapabrasil.bsky.social @envdefensefund.bsky.social @ilri.org @ucdavis.bsky.social AIM for Scale; Kenya Ministry of Agriculture & Livestock Development; SEBI-Livestock @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ; Stellapps Technologies Private Limited 3/3

Investment Roadmap: Digital Services for Livestock Methane in LMICs

The Investment Roadmap on Digital Services for Livestock Methane in LMICs provides governments and development banks with:

1️⃣Practical recommendations
2️⃣Case studies from around the world
3️⃣Four investment pathways to scale
#DigitalServices4Livestock

Learn more 👇

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🚨 Today we have launched the Digital Services Investment Roadmap for the Livestock Sector!

The aim? Harness the power of digital services to reduce methane emissions and emissions intensity from the livestock sector while increasing food production. 1/3

Save the date! LD4D Annual Meeting 2025

📅 4 Dec, 14:00-15:30 GMT

Registration opens in November.

We look forward to meeting everyone to reflect on last year’s achievements, hear from global livestock experts, and celebrate our network.

🔗 Read more: edin.ac/4mshQca

#SustainableLivestock

📢 New! The LD4D Gender & Livestock Modeling Solutions Group 🐮👩🌾

Bringing gender + livestock experts together to:
✅ Enrich models with #Gender dynamics
✅ Co-develop practical solutions
✅ Support inclusive, #SustainableLivestock strategies

✨ Stay tuned for outcomes soon!

📖 edin.ac/3K8wojL

🚨 Missed our February 2025 #eConversation? The Digital Revolution in #LivestockDevelopment summary is out! 🌍👩🌾

Explore insights on digital tools, financing, gender inclusion & sustainability in #LMIC livestock systems.

📖 Read here: edin.ac/3SrobrH

#DigitalSolutions #FoodSecurity

It's tomorrow!! Gender & Livestock Data Community of Practice Conversation 🌟

From Programs to Impact: Leveraging Male Engagement for Sustainable Livestock Systems – Lessons from Aquaculture and Livestock

🔗Register: edin.ac/4gsS1HC

👥 Join the Community:
🔗 edin.ac/3EID8C3

#SustainableLivestock

Explore our newly updated dashboard with 90+ tools & case studies for better assessment of socio-environmental impact of agri-food systems - for more transparent & informed project, policy and investment decisions.

Read more: edin.ac/4gstrGR

#sustainablelivestock #climatefinance

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🌎🐐📈🌱 LD4D is delighted to welcome our new Steering Committee members!

Together, they’ll help drive progress in #SustainableLivestock, #LivestockData, and #GlobalDevelopment. We look forward to collaborating with these global experts.

🔗 Learn more: edin.ac/43dItKk

#OneHealth #Climate #Policy

✨ This analysis highlights the power of our network's collaborative approach, bringing together evidence-based insights to deliver impact.
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What kind of investments are needed?

🌿 Improved animal feed and nutrition
🧬 Higher-yielding, more climate-resilient livestock breeds
🏥 Improved animal health

🔎 There is plenty of evidence showing how these interventions can improve efficiency if implemented appropriately in the local context.

To understand the potential for avoided emissions, or bending the emissions curve, we must consider two alternative scenarios for the future of livestock production in LMICs. One where production efficiency does not improve significantly and one where investment leads to improvement. The difference in absolute emissions between these two scenarios is the potential for avoided emissions (green area).

This is in contrast to a 'business-as-usual' scenario where investment in production efficiency is low, so growing demand is met through increasing animal numbers and a corresponding rise in absolute greenhouse gas emissions.

This means supporting investment in measures that improve productivity while reducing the relative amount of greenhouse gases produced per unit of meat, milk and eggs. 🍖🥛🍳

Bending the emissions curve for livestock production Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock production in many lower income countries are expected to continue to rise in the coming decades. The extent of this increase is largely dependent on how much p...

👥 Authored by a diverse group of LD4D experts and researchers working across the sector, the brief highlights the need to improve production efficiency while meeting growing food and nutrition demands.

How better livestock efficiency could balance urgent food security and climate goals As demand for animal source foods rises in low-and middle-income countries, LD4D presents an important concept to illustrate how to slow the growth of future livestock sector emissions, while still im...

📈 🐄 As demand for animal source foods rises in low-and middle-income countries, our latest brief on Bending the Emissions Curve presents an important concept to illustrate how to slow the growth of future livestock sector emissions, while still improving food security. 🌐 📉

🎥Women & Pastoral Livelihoods: Innovating for a Sustainable Future

🎯 Missed our last webinar? The recording is now available online! 🌍✨

Catch up on the insights, expert discussions, and key takeaways.

👉 Watch the full recording here: edin.ac/43Tf61Y

#WomenInAg #SustainableLivestock #OneHealth

🌍 Our colleagues from SEBI-Livestock have joined FAO’s LEAP Partnership—a global initiative to measure livestock’s environmental impacts & drive sustainable practices. This aligns with their mission to mobilise data & evidence for better policies & smallholder livelihoods. 👉 edin.ac/43Tf61Y