Climate-smart livestock · One Health · Trade advisory

Building climate-smart livestock systems for resilient economies, healthier communities, and sustainable trade.

Livestock Futures is a strategic advisory practice supporting governments, development partners, research institutions, and private-sector innovators to design, finance, evaluate, and scale livestock programs that deliver productivity, health, climate, and market-access outcomes.

What we do

Strategic advisory at the intersection of animal health, climate action, trade, and investment.

Livestock Futures helps partners move from strategy to implementation by combining technical evidence, policy insight, stakeholder engagement, and investment-ready project development.

Climate-smart livestock and carbon finance

Design livestock interventions that improve productivity, strengthen resilience, reduce emissions intensity, and support credible carbon accounting and climate-finance pathways.

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Animal health, One Health, and pandemic preparedness

Strengthen veterinary services, laboratories, surveillance, workforce capacity, and systems-based One Health approaches for pandemic preparedness and response.

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Trade access, traceability, and risk analysis

Support safe trade in livestock and agri-food products through risk analysis, e-certification, commodity-based trade, digital traceability, and market-access systems.

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Project development, investment design, and resource mobilization

Develop investment concepts, results frameworks, capacity assessments, evaluation designs, resource mobilization strategies, and implementation roadmaps.

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How we work

From technical diagnosis to financeable implementation.

Each engagement is structured to produce credible, practical outputs that can inform decisions, mobilize resources, and strengthen delivery.

01

Diagnose

Assess systems, capacity constraints, risks, climate pressures, stakeholder needs, and market-access barriers.

02

Design

Develop practical interventions, results frameworks, implementation roadmaps, and technical foundations for action.

03

Finance

Translate strategies into investment concepts, climate-finance pathways, resource mobilization plans, and partnership models.

04

Measure

Evaluate performance, document lessons, strengthen knowledge systems, and support adaptive implementation.

Selected experience

Advisory and evaluation work across global development, research, policy, and innovation.

Livestock Futures leadership experience includes engagements connected to FAO, the World Bank, ILRI, CGIAR, IITA, Bioversity International, GOPA, and private-sector innovators.

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FAO and FAO Investment Center

Embedded animal health and livestock advisory support across Southern Africa and Kenya, including laboratory capacity development, e-certification, commodity-based trade, baseline assessments, animal health service strengthening, pandemic preparedness, and livestock value-chain resilience.

World Bank

Digital traceability system development for safe trade in plant and livestock products, support to digitize Performance of Veterinary Services, Pandemic Fund application review, and frameworks to estimate One Health impacts across social systems, sectors, and economies.

ILRI and CGIAR

Proposal development for the Livestock and Climate Solutions Hub, resource mobilization strategy, climate-smart livestock proposals, mitigation-for-finance concepts linked to mass vaccination, and mixed farming systems work under One CGIAR sustainable intensification efforts.

Initiatives

Platforms for climate-smart livestock, One Health learning, and systems resilience.

Initiative pages can host concept notes, agendas, partner updates, training opportunities, and future registration or external links.

Climate-smart investment

Africa Climate Smart Livestock Summit

A catalytic continental platform to accelerate sustainable transformation of Africa’s livestock sector through a competitiveness-plus-sustainability approach aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement.

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One Health training

Standardized One Health Study Abroad Program

An accreditation-ready East Africa study abroad model for U.S. pre-vet and veterinary students, combining One Health, international veterinary medicine, and livestock-centered agricultural development.

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Systems resilience

DEWATS PPR Secretariat

A systems-oriented platform centered on decentralized wastewater treatment to address pandemic preparedness, water security, and food-systems resilience while delivering multiple development co-benefits.

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Ready to design livestock systems that are productive, resilient, healthy, and investment-ready?

Contact Livestock Futures to discuss advisory support, project development, evaluation, capacity development, climate finance, or strategic partnerships.

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