Anne Mottet

International Fund for Agricultural Development | IFAD · Sustainable Production Market and Institutions

Livestock contribute to food security by supplying essential macro- and micro-nutrients, providing manure and draught power, and generating income. But they also consume food edible by humans and graze on pastures that could be used for crop production. Livestock, especially ruminants, are often seen as poor converters of feed into food products. T...

This paper presents the current situation of the global poultry sector and future trends, and discusses the challenges the sector is facing, with particular emphasis on four areas: food security, social challenges (poverty alleviation and equity), health (animal and human) and environment (natural resources and climate change). Poultry makes a subs...

Agroecology has the potential to transform our food systems and make them more sustainable. It is generating growing political interest at national and international levels and harmonized evidence of its positive impact could support the transition. Developed via an extensive, multi-stakeholder participatory process, FAO’s Tool for Agroecology Perf...

Agroecology is increasingly recognized as a pathway for agricultural transformation that can mitigate environmental harms and improve social equity. Yet, the lack of broad-scale assessments that track agroecological indicators in distinct contexts has been identified as a challenge to scaling agroecology out and up. Here, we identify and assess ind...

Since 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has played a leading role in facilitating agroecology discussions and dialogues among many different regions and stakeholders. FAO’s engagement with agroecology as one promising way of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was confirmed in 2018 with the launc...

Scientific and political discussions around the role of animal-source foods (ASFs) in healthy and environmentally sustainable diets are often polarizing. To bring clarity to this important topic, we critically reviewed the evidence on the health and environmental benefits and risks of ASFs, focusing on primary trade-offs and tensions, and summarize...

Les contributions des prairies à la qualité de l'eau, à la biodiversité et à la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique, par le stockage du carbone, font désormais largement consensus dans le monde scientifique, mais ne sont pas toujours bien connues au-delà. Malgré la reconnaissance de l'ampleur des services écosystémiques attribués aux prairies...

The current global energy scarcity is leading to a sharp increase in its price and indirectly in the price of feed. Therefore, the large part of animal production that relies on cereals, pulses and cultivated forage will experience a sharp loss of competitiveness. The low energy efficiency of animals makes these arable land-based (ALB) livestock sy...

CONTEXT In 2019, FAO and partners launched the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), an innovative and comprehensive framework to produce global and harmonized evidence on the multidimensional performance of agroecology and on its potential to contribute to sustainable food systems and the achievement of the SDGs. In 2020, TAPE was us...

Strengthening of feed security in the Sahel is urgently needed given the climate change and growing human population. A prerequisite to this is sustainable use of rangeland forage resources for livestock. Many studies have focused on the assessment of rangeland resources during the rainy season, while only a few have focused on the dry season which...

En este documento se presentan los resultados de la implementación de TAPE en el Área Metropolitana de Rosario (Argentina). El marco innovador para la evaluación del desempeño de la agroecología se implementó en 60 sistemas de producción distribuidos en 5 distritos de la provincia de Santa Fe. El uso de TAPE en este territorio proporcionó datos imp...

TAPE is an innovative and holistic framework and process that can support projects (among other uses) to include an agroecological approach to ensure that transformational contextualized practices for regenerated landscapes and sustainable livelihoods are developed and spread throughout targeted areas. TAPE has already been tested in more than 30 c...

L'Association Française de Zootechnie (AFZ) a organisé trois webinaires afin de faire l'état des lieux des connaissances relatives à l'évaluation environnementale des produits animaux, dans la perspective de la mise en place de l'affichage environnemental des produits alimentaires. Cet article résume les neuf interventions et les débats qui les ont...

L’Association Française de Zootechnie (AFZ) a organisé trois webinaires afin de faire l’état des lieux des connaissances relatives à l’évaluation environnementale des produits animaux, dans la perspective de la mise en place de l’affichage environnemental des produits alimentaires. Cet article résume les neuf interventions et les débats qui les ont...

Sustainable Development. Momentum for change led to the first ever United Nations Food Systems Summit in September 2021, which agreed on innovative solutions and strategies to transform agrifood systems and leverage those changes to deliver progress across all the SDGs. The Summit ’s call to action focused on five objectives, one of which is buildi...

L'agroécologie fait l’objet d’un intérêt grandissant comme moyen de progresser vers une agriculture et des systèmes alimentaires plus durables. Cependant, les preuves de la contribution de l'agroécologie à la durabilité restent fragmentées en raison de méthodes et de données hétérogènes, d'échelles différentes et de lacunes dans la recherche. Pour...

There is increasing interest in agroecology as a way to move toward more sustainable agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to sustainability remains fragmented because of heterogeneous methods and data, differing scales and timeframes, and knowledge gaps. Facing these challenges, 70 representatives of ag...

These guidelines were prepared to provide the users with general guidance on how to use the tool GLEAM-i. GLEAM-i is a publicly available and free tool specific to estimating the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from different livestock species and production systems from all countries in the world. The livestock species covered in GLEAM-i are four r...

86% of livestock feed is not suitable for human consumption. If not consumed by livestock, crop residues and by-products could quickly become an environmental burden as the human population grows and consumes more and more processed food. Animals also consume food that could potentially be eaten by people. Grains account for 13% of the global lives...

The global pork sector contributes to food security and supports livelihoods for millions of households but also causes nitrogen (N) pollution. Here we assess N flows, losses, and N use indicators for global pork supply chains, from “cradle-to-primary-processing-gate” and for three production systems: the backyard, intermediate and industrial syste...

The report “Transforming the livestock sector through the sustainable development goals” examines the sector’s interaction with each of the SDGs, as well as the potential synergies, trade-offs, and complex interlinkages involved. The publication is intended to serve as a reference framework for Member States as they move forward to realize livestoc...

Herbivores are found in a variety of ecosystems all over the world. Permanent pastures and meadows cover about 25% of global land. We currently count one domesticated herbivore for two people in the world and the number is growing. Production systems and products are highly diverse. This high diversity is the result of thousands of years of natural...

Livestock productivity is likely to be adversely affected by climate change mainly in terms of feed supply variations. Principal livestock food resources in Zambia and Malawi are grass areas, but very few data are available for supply management and amount estimation. The aim of this paper is to illustrate the procedure adopted for preliminary esti...

The Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model - interactive (GLEAM-i) is an open, user-friendly and livestock specific calculator of greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector. It was designed by FAO and partners to support governments, project planners, producers, industry and civil society organizations to calculate greenhouse gas e...

Pastoralism in the sahel, refers to the extensive production of livestock in rangelands, in which managed herd mobility (transhumance and nomadism) are necessary for the productivity and the sustainability of pastoral system. However, in this region, impact assessment and adaptation solutions face several methodological limitations and lack of data...

The livestock sector is one of the fastest growing subsectors of the agricultural economy and, while it makes a major contribution to global food supply and economic development, it also consumes significant amounts of natural resources and alters the environment. In order to improve our understanding of the global environmental impact of livestock...

Cet article étudie les relations entre facteurs environnementaux, géographiques, démographiques et socio-économiques et la diversité des races d'animaux d'élevage de 158 pays pour quatre espèces de mammifères domestiques (bovins, ovins, caprins et porcins). De manière générale, des corrélations élevées ont été trouvées entre la superficie agricole,...

Livestock can contribute to climate change mitigation by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and by increasing soil carbon sequestration. Packages of mitigation techniques can bring large environmental benefits as illustrated in six case studies modeled in the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model developed by FAO. With feasible techn...

p>Livestock contribute to food security by supplying essential macro- and micro-nutrients, providing manure and draught power, and generating income. But they also consume food edible by humans and graze on pastures that could be used for crop production. Livestock, especially ruminants, are often seen as poor converters of feed into food products....

This study investigates the relationships between various environmental and geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic factors with the diversity of livestock breeds reported within countries across the world. Statistical analyses were performed considering the numbers of breeds reported by 158 countries for 4 livestock mammalian species (cattle, s...

This study investigates the relationships between various environmental and geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic factors with the diversity of livestock breeds reported within countries across the world. Statistical analyses were performed considering the numbers of breeds reported by 158 countries for 4 livestock mammalian species (cattle, s...

The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, represents a new beginning in the global effort to stabilize the climate before it is too late. It recognizes the importance of food security in the international response to climate change, as reflected by many countries focusing prominently on the agriculture sector in their planned contributions to...

Livestock [inclusive of ruminant species, namely cattle (Bos Taurus and Bos indicus), sheep (Ovis aries), goats (Capra hircus), and buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis), and non-ruminant species, namely pigs (Sus scrofa domesticus) and chickens (Gallus domesticus)] are both affected by climate change and contribute as much as 14.5 % of global anthropogenic...

Egalement publié en 2014 dans Pour la Science n°437

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Theme 2: Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnologies

Changes in agricultural land use are responsible for significant modifications in mountain landscapes. This study is part of an interdisciplinary research on the processes and consequences of spontaneous afforestation of Pyrenean landscapes by ash, and the possibilities for its management. We address the relationships between vegetation dynamics an...

Past change in agricultural systems over the past mid-century brought out important change in agricultural land use in Mediterranean mountain areas. Agricultural abandonment resulted into landscape encroachment and reforestation processes of negative impact on natural resources and landscapes. Sustainable development of livestock husbandry in this...

Research studies aimed at integrating socio-economic and geo-bio-physical factors are increasingly being used in order to improve our understanding of the causes and effects of land-use change and to support sustainable landscape development. In line with such approaches, the study reported in this paper addresses land-use change and its drivers in...

SUMMARY - The Mediterranean region has a very rich and long history of trade across the Mediterranean Sea in many industries and particularly in animal productions. The Mediterranean animal industries, and ruminants in particular, have some common traits such as the importance of pastoral systems, light and young carcass productions, numerous label...

Pour la recherche, aujourd’hui, comprendre et caractériser les relations entre le fonctionnement des systèmes agraires et des paysages est devenu une problématique incontournable en raison de l’état de certaines ressources naturelles mais également du fait de la place grandissante de la multifonctionnalité de l’agriculture dans les préoccupations s...

Pour la recherche, aujourd'hui, comprendre et caractériser les relations entre le fonctionnement des systèmes agraires et des paysages est devenu une problématique incontournable en raison de l'état de certaines ressources naturelles mais également du fait de la place grandissante de la multifonctionnalité de l'agriculture dans les préoccupations s...

Diplôme : Docteur de l'Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse

En prenant appui sur divers résultats de recherches menées depuis 20 ans dans les Pyrénées centrales, les caractéristiques de l’utilisation de l’espace par les exploitations agricoles sont présentées. Les particularités spatiales des territoires d’exploitation influent sur les pratiques d’utilisation des prairies et sur la dynamique des couverts et...

Landscape changes are currently a major concern for sustainable development in European mountains. Landscape encroachment and reforestation are widespread phenomena in these regions whose impact on future landscape functions (environmental, economical and social) remains difficult to forecast. Here, we present a landscape scenario visualisation too...