LD4D Annual Meeting 2024: Network-powered solutions for real world impact
A celebration of our community’s progress and charting our path forward
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The 2024 Livestock Data for Decisions annual meeting focused on working together to unlock solutions through shared expertise and cross-sector partnerships.
Your engagement has powered our collective progress in 2023-24: from launching innovative partnerships to influencing global policy dialogue. Together, we're not just collecting data – we're building the foundation for livestock transformation through collaborative solutions.
Highlights:
- Unveiling of our new Impact Statement with an enhanced gender focus
- Celebrating our Climate Finance Solution Group's achievements to date
- Highlighting future directions for digital innovations for livestock development
- Introducing the Feed Baskets Group with an informative “show & tell” from members
- Panel discussion on transforming livestock data through a gender lens
- Evolving member connections and engagement
Who it's for:
- LD4D members: As experienced contributors, your expertise and continued input are crucial as we welcome new perspectives and build on our established foundations. This is also a chance to re-engage and help shape LD4D's exciting future. Your voice and insights are needed more than ever to help guide LD4D's evolution and unlock new opportunities for impact.
- Decision makers: The meeting will showcase practical tools and evidence-based approaches that support informed policy and investment decisions in the livestock sector.
- Potential partners: The meeting highlights opportunities to take part in high-impact, multi-stakeholder, and evidence-based approaches for sustainable livestock development through our successful Solution Groups model.
Sessions and speakers
2024 Reflections and new LD4D Impact Statement
Ana Miranda, LD4D Development Manager
Ana leads on the development of the LD4D network and delivery of outputs and outcomes. An economist with expertise in providing technical assistance to programmes targeting smallholder farming systems, Ana has worked as a monitoring and evaluation specialist for FAO and UNDP in different projects across Latin America and Africa. She has a MSc in Economics for Rural Development and a MA in Social Policy and Social Development from the University of Manchester.
Climate Finance Solutions Group - Celebrating our achievements to date
Ana Miranda, LD4D Development Manager
Digital innovations: Highlighting our future direction for digital innovations in livestock development
Vanessa Meadu, LD4D Communications & Knowledge Exchange Specialist
Vanessa leads communications and knowledge exchange activities for SEBI-Livestock as well as for the Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D) Community of Practice. She has a deep interest in sustainable development communications, particularly in the agricultural sector. She previously led communications for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) based at the University of Copenhagen, and was a Communications Officer at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
Gender panel session: Transforming livestock data through a gender lens
Hosted by Julie Koehler, Head of Gender Data in Livestock Development, SEBI-Livestock
Julie Koehler is passionate about leading behaviour change processes that support deeper inclusion and gender integration within teams. As Head of Gender (Data in Livestock Development) at SEBI-Livestock, she leads collaborations that support the use of data towards transformative change. Julie has 20 years of experience in humanitarian response, development, and academia, and has worked to build and deliver systems, processes and structures that help integrate gender across portfolios from country teams to global initiatives. She has worked with teams across sectors and contexts to get past challenges and implement solutions. She is a convener of people and a facilitator of collaborative and empowering spaces.
Panel speakers:
Catherine Macharia-Mutie (Tanager)
Dr. Catherine Macharia-Mutie is a public health nutrition development professional. Currently, she is the Deputy Team Leader for the Impacting Gender and Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture Plus (IGNITE+) program implemented by Tanager and based in Kenya.
Sofanit Mesfin (Ripple Effect)
Sofanit Mesfin is the Gender & Social Inclusion Coordinator at Ripple Effect. Based in Addis Ababa, Sofanit's deep commitment to social impact was solidified during her 2015 Kenya volunteer experience with Ripple Effect. Witnessing the organization's transformative work, she dedicated her financial expertise to creating hope and meaningful change for communities in need.
Livestock Feed Baskets
Introducing the LD4D Feed Baskets Group
Speaker: Gareth Salmon (SEBI-Livestock)
Gareth supports a range of SEBI-Livestock’s activities including monitoring and evaluation, the development of the livestockdata.org website, and research on livestock production and economic modelling. He has experience working with livestock production in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, and also practical experience of livestock farming in the UK. Gareth holds a PhD from The University of Edinburgh and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), where he investigated productivity and GHG emissions intensity of Senegalese dairy production systems.
Livestock Feed Baskets Show and Tell
'Feed baskets in Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM)'
Giuseppe Tempio (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Giuseppe Tempio is a biologist, specialised in ecological analysis, and a Livestock environmental impact analyst at FAO. He has been supporting FAO’s work on sustainable livestock agri-food systems since 2011, implementing the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM) to analyze environmental impacts from the livestock sector and evaluate mitigation options.
'Quantifying Ruminant Livestock Diets in Data Scarce Tropical Regions'
John Mutua (University of Edinburgh)
John is a PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh, researching livestock diets using geospatial techniques. Previously, he worked as a geospatial analyst at Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT. He holds a Master's in Climate Change Adaptation from University of Nairobi and a Bachelor's in Geography from Moi University, Kenya.
'Digestible energy values of the feed basket: challenges and proposed solutions in Africa region'
Séga Ndao (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre)
Séga Ndao holds a PhD in animal science. Séga supports the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) to implement a GHG inventory improvement programme in Africa. His work focuses on livestock GHG emissions reporting and mitigation. Séga also dedicates time to ensure that field research activities are tailored to meet inventory needs.
'Understanding Feed and Quantifying Feed Baskets'
An Notenbaert (Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT)
An Maria Omer Notenbaert is a land use planner with 25+ years of experience in Africa. Transitioning from spatial analysis to interdisciplinary system analysis, she now leads CIAT’s Tropical Forages team in Africa, advancing innovative projects on sustainable livestock production systems, integrating tools like CLEANED to optimize farm- and landscape-level environmental, economic and social sustainability.
'Measuring Livestock Feed Balance, Composition and Emissions'
Adegbola Tolulope Adesogan (University of Florida)
Dr. Adesogan is the Associate Vice President and Director, Global Food Systems Institute, IFAS, University of Florida and the E.T. and V.C. York Professor of International Agriculture. His research areas include using animal-source foods to improve human nutrition, health, incomes and livelihoods and evaluating strategies to sustainably improve animal performance and health. From 2015 to 2023, he was the Principal Investigator and Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems at the University of Florida, which managed over 60 research for development projects that use animal-source foods to improve nutrition, health and incomes in nine African and Asian countries.
Member engagement session
Evolving our member connections and engagement
Led by the LD4D Communications team: Vanessa Meadu, Agnieszka Czechon and Marina Cherbonnier
Agenda and speakers
2024 Reflections
Impact Statement - Unveiling the new LD4D Impact Statement
Climate Finance Solutions Group - Celebrating our achievements to date
Ana Miranda, LD4D Development Manager
Ana leads on the development of the LD4D network and delivery of outputs and outcomes. An economist with expertise in providing technical assistance to programmes targeting smallholder farming systems, Ana has worked as a monitoring and evaluation specialist for FAO and UNDP in different projects across Latin America and Africa. She has a MSc in Economics for Rural Development and a MA in Social Policy and Social Development from the University of Manchester.
Digital innovations: Highlighting our future direction for digital innovations in livestock development
Vanessa Meadu, LD4D Communications & Knowledge Exchange Specialist
Vanessa leads communications and knowledge exchange activities for SEBI-Livestock as well as for the Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D) Community of Practice. She has a deep interest in sustainable development communications, particularly in the agricultural sector. She previously led communications for the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) based at the University of Copenhagen, and was a Communications Officer at the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.
Gender panel session: Transforming livestock data through a gender lens
Hosted by Julie Koehler, Head of Gender Data in Livestock Development, SEBI-Livestock
Julie Koehler is passionate about leading behaviour change processes that support deeper inclusion and gender integration within teams. As Head of Gender (Data in Livestock Development) at SEBI-Livestock, she leads collaborations that support the use of data towards transformative change. Julie has 20 years of experience in humanitarian response, development, and academia, and has worked to build and deliver systems, processes and structures that help integrate gender across portfolios from country teams to global initiatives. She has worked with teams across sectors and contexts to get past challenges and implement solutions. She is a convener of people and a facilitator of collaborative and empowering spaces.
Panel speakers:
Catherine Macharia-Mutie (Tanager)
Dr. Catherine Macharia-Mutie is a public health nutrition development professional. Currently, she is the Deputy Team Leader for the Impacting Gender and Nutrition through Innovative Technical Exchange in Agriculture Plus (IGNITE+) program implemented by Tanager and based in Kenya.
Sofanit Mesfin (Ripple Effect)
Sofanit Mesfin is the Gender & Social Inclusion Coordinator at Ripple Effect. Based in Addis Ababa, Sofanit's deep commitment to social impact was solidified during her 2015 Kenya volunteer experience with Ripple Effect. Witnessing the organization's transformative work, she dedicated her financial expertise to creating hope and meaningful change for communities in need.
Livestock Feed Baskets: Introducing the LD4D Feed Baskets group with an informative "show and tell" from members
Speakers: Carlos Gonzalez Fischer (Department of Global Development, Cornell University)
Carlos M. Gonzalez Fischer is a research associate at the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. Carlos’ work aims to improve the sustainability of agri-food systems. Recently, his research has focused on the livestock sector, healthy and sustainable diets, and the climate impact of food.
Giuseppe Tempio (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Giuseppe Tempio is a biologist, specialised in ecological analysis, and a Livestock environmental impact analyst at FAO. He has been supporting FAO’s work on sustainable livestock agri-food systems since 2011, implementing the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM) to analyze environmental impacts from the livestock sector and evaluate mitigation options.
John Mutua (University of Edinburgh)
John is a PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh, researching livestock diets using geospatial techniques. Previously, he worked as a geospatial analyst at Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT. He holds a Master's in Climate Change Adaptation from University of Nairobi and a Bachelor's in Geography from Moi University, Kenya.
Séga Ndao (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre)
Séga Ndao holds a PhD in animal science. Séga supports the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) to implement a GHG inventory improvement programme in Africa. His work focuses on livestock GHG emissions reporting and mitigation. Séga also dedicates time to ensure that field research activities are tailored to meet inventory needs.
An Notenbaert (Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT)
An Maria Omer Notenbaert is a land use planner with 25+ years of experience in Africa. Transitioning from spatial analysis to interdisciplinary system analysis, she now leads CIAT’s Tropical Forages team in Africa, advancing innovative projects on sustainable livestock production systems, integrating tools like CLEANED to optimize farm- and landscape-level environmental, economic and social sustainability.
Adegbola Tolulope Adesogan (University of Florida)
Dr. Adesogan is the Associate Vice President and Director, Global Food Systems Institute, IFAS, University of Florida and the E.T. and V.C. York Professor of International Agriculture. His research areas include using animal-source foods to improve human nutrition, health, incomes and livelihoods and evaluating strategies to sustainably improve animal performance and health. From 2015 to 2023, he was the Principal Investigator and Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems at the University of Florida, which managed over 60 research for development projects that use animal-source foods to improve nutrition, health and incomes in nine African and Asian countries.
Member engagement session: evolving our member connections and engagement
Led by the LD4D Communications team: Vanessa Meadu, Agnieszka Czechon and Marina Cherbonnier