LD4D 2025 Annual Meeting recap: watch the sessions and explore what's next
This year’s member gathering celebrated collaborations, impact and innovation.
On 4 December, 122 LD4D members and partners gathered for our annual virtual community meeting. We looked back at our diverse collaborations from the past year, heard from members about the value and impact of taking part in joint activities, and celebrated our achievements!
Meeting recordings
Summary and Key Takeaways
This year, we celebrated the remarkable progress of our three Solutions Groups - on Digital Services for Methane Management, Gender & Livestock Modelling, and Feed Baskets. Each is generating concrete outputs that advance both knowledge and practice.
Explore Solutions Groups outputs
Collaborative tools
We've seen how LD4D facilitates collaborative outputs like "Bending the Emissions Curve" and the Environmental Assessment Tools Dashboard - resources that serve the entire community and beyond.
Consultations
We explored how our Consultation processes rapidly mobilize expertise to address critical evidence gaps, as demonstrated by the Livestock Disease Evidence consultation.
Consultation output
Gender & Livestock Data Community of Practice
We also highlighted the conversations taking place of our Gender & Livestock Data Community of Practice. Do you have data insights, new tools or approaches that you would like to share through our community insights conversations? Get in touch!
Photo competition results
We also shared all the amazing entries in our 2025 Photo Competition and announced the winning images, including the community favourite. Congratulations to everyone who took part!
Explore the photos from this year's competition
Your community, our collective impact
Most importantly, we heard from members themselves about the value these collective action mechanisms create – for individual practitioners, researchers, and organisations; for the network as a whole; and for our efforts to transform livestock systems.
This is what LD4D is all about: transforming connection into collaboration, and collaboration into concrete solutions for sustainable livestock systems.
As we look toward 2026, we want to expand on our successes. Your continued engagement shapes where we go next as a collective. Thanks to everyone who took part!
Missed the event? The full meeting recording is now available
Jump to Specific Sessions
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Welcome & Icebreaker
Vanessa Meadu (LD4D)
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Where we are at & What’s new
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Steering Committee perspective - David 'Dai' Harvey (Land O'Lakes Venture37)
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LD4D current status and future outlook - Karen Smyth (SEBI-Livestock)
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Solutions Groups and Their Outputs
Overview of LD4D Solutions Groups - Ana Miranda (LD4D)
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Digital Services for Methane Management Solutions Group - Ana Miranda (LD4D)
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Gender & Livestock Modelling Solutions Group - Julie Koehler (SEBI-Livestock)
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Feed Baskets Data Solutions Group - Gareth Salmon (SEBI-Livestock)
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Round-table discussion with active Solutions Groups members: The value of Solutions Groups for individual and collective impact – Andrew Bisson (LD4D), Alessandra Galiè (ILRI), Emerta Aragie (IFPRI), Greg Kohler (CCAC), Serinmary Pulikkottil Rejimon (Texas A&MU)
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Collective outputs
Bending the Emissions Curve - Nick Wheelhouse (Edinburgh Napier University)
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Environmental Assessment Tools for Agri-food Systems - Sophia Jenkinson and Frances Ryan (SEBI-Livestock)
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Consultations
Livestock Disease Evidence consultation and findings to date - Katie Dirsmith and Fiona Allan (SEBI-Livestock)
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Photo competition winner announcement
Lucy Pughe (University of Edinburgh) and Sofanit Mesfin (Ripple Effect)
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Wrap-up and Calls to Action
Vanessa Meadu (LD4D)
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