The livestock livelihoods and agri-food systems flagship carries out integrative research to improve animal source food systems and livestock based livelihoods in the following areas:

• Systems analysis for priority setting and scaling and on livestock sector development
• Gender-based analysis to inform research priority setting and equitable outcomes
• Enhanced nutrition through livestock: nutrition-sensitive and cost-effective livestock interventions, market and investment assessment and opportunities to improve nutrition
• Improving livelihoods of smallholder livestock keepers and their capacity to cope with shocks
• Enabling policies, markets and institutions
• Systematic learning to facilitate scaling of innovations related to the unique opportunities of livestock systems

Question

9. What are the most promising livestock research solutions or interventions we need to discover – or deliver – to provide more and better animal-source foods to the world’s poor? How do we achieve these?

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