Thanawat Tiensin, FAO Director for Animal Production is now speaking. Says that demand for animal protein will increase by 20% until 2050. That is a big understatement. Overall protein supply will need to double to satisfy nutritional requirements, and the only way to do this

At the launch event for the landmark LEAP report on methane. The report is much needed on how to measure biogenic methane emissions properly and evaluate avoidance or mitigation.

Frank Mitloehner Frank Mitloehner explains that the methane report is not bedtime reading, but heavy technical standard setting, produced by 50-60 of the top scientists of the world on how biogenic methane impact can be measured, and avoid climate warming. „But if we do not now

Shirley Tarawali, Chair of Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, reenforces the message that sustainable livestock solutions are always context-specific and need to be integrated into society, economics, and ecology. As we also write in the article we co-authored in April

Frederic LeRoy Frédéric Leroy co-Initiator of the Dublin Declaration of Scientists The Dublin Declaration of Scientists is now speaking as a panelist during the Better Nutrition section of the Sustainable Livestock conference at FAO. He emphasizes that foods may have risks and benefits at the same time,

The WHO has revealed its colors once more: Francesco Branca, Director of Nutrition at WHO explains that eating up to 500 grams of red meat per week is safe, but eating 600 grams of it in an average population of upper middle income countries leads to 65.000 avoidable deaths.

Hsin Huang, SG of the International Meat Secretariat comments on the Fata Morgana of cell-based meats: „Bring it on in an open and fair competition, and provide scientific evidence for all the claims that are made of such slaughter free meat. So far, these are just claims, no

Alexandre Alexandre Berndt senior researcher at Brazilian Embrapa and an early pioneer of integrated livestock farming research, reports on his peer-reviewed scientific insights and practical tools for farmers for low climate impact farming, preserving biodiversity and economic

Side event at FAO as an overview on the technical options to reduce climate impact of ruminant livestock, with reports from Spain, Australia, Kenya and Brazil. Climate impact reduction solutions are real options. Reducing the herd size is not a viable option because of too much

Arianna Guiliodori Arianna Giuliodori , SG of World Farmers Organisation WFO wraps up the final content session of the FAO Sustainable Livestock Conference which focused on finance. She emphasizes that more of the value in the food system needs to go to the farmers,

Congratulations Thanawat Tiensin for shining the right light on Sustainable Livestock, to let the real science speak to policy under the famous roof of sky and ocean at FAO. An important milestone towards achieving the SDGs and having livestock be a solution. Looking forward to

Today I am presenting at the Haag Farmers Day (30km outside of Munich), to about one thousand dairy farmers about how and why their cows are NOT killing the climate. Taking off in 10 minutes.

In the morning at 10 is the perfect time in Bavaria to start the day with cheese and a Mass Bier. Need to start my presentation soon enough in order to still have a sober audience for the topic of cows and climate.

The colors in Haag are Red White, not the despised Blue White of Bavaria. Haag used to be an independent dukedom until 1804. Until today the Haagians resent being part of Bavaria, as nothing good comes from there, such as the Wittelsbacher Kings, and in modern times the Greens.

Yesterday, on Friday, I taught a whole day seminar on global food system dynamics, the global shortage of proteins and the role of animals, at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences. It is in a Master degree program called „Preneurship in Regenerative Food Systems“. On

And today I am sitting in an air plane again, on the way to Brussels. My agenda for the next week: Cologne, Frankfurt, Cologne, Maastricht, Bologna and then back home on Friday evening. In Cologne I have various meetings at Anuga, a professional fair for foods. In Maastricht I am

Superb historical analysis

Today at the World Meat Congress in Maastricht I talked about the meat industry not winning its strategic must win battles, and therefore more effort is required to make the case to society on the superior nutritional, ecological, economic and ethical performance of livestock

Today at the World Meat Congress in Maastricht, key note speaker Thanawat Tiensin from FAO outlined the roadmap of success for Sustainable Livestock. He left no doubt that FAO wants to and will take a leadership role for providing global policy guidance to make Sustainable

The only emergency we have is that these priests of doom can spread their vitriol around without being punished.