5. Food Security, nutrition and climate change mitigation and adaptation are all important, and sit within a wider network of interlocking issues and agendas, such as livelihoods, animal welfare, biodiversity, food soverignty, water and soil conservation, and so on.
Forestry biomass conserves landscapes, soil and water resources and provides services and products for the livelihood of millions of the living animals as well as humans.
Accumulation of a stock of living animals is a major means of livelihood security that pastoralists use to cope with their constraints, amongst which is high environmental variability.
This is coming at a considerable cost, not only to the global climate, but also to food security, ecological sustainability, livelihoods, equity, animal welfare, and public health at the national level.
As Akers argues, the direct attack on the Priests' principal source of livelihood, the animal sacrifices, could not be ignored.
And millions of other birds, animals, livelihoods and precious natural resources will get blackened as well.
In the process people have been displaced, livelihoods undermined, endangered animals such as orangutans have lost their natural habitat and sometimes their lives, and the draining of peatland has released millions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere exacerbating climate change.
But a recent meeting on agroecology organized under the auspices of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter -- and featuring many world experts on the subject -- thinks we can feed the world without imperiling local livelihoods, land and animals.
Mwachara et al.[ 49] identify the need to involve the livestock keepers in designing the breeding programmes to take into account the full array of contributions to livelihoods that these animals make and so identify genetic characteristics related to these functions.
Often their only source of livelihood, selling the animals is not an option, especially when they would have been forced to sell at a very low price, he says.
