Farmers To Share How Diversified Livestock-Cropping Systems Deliver Food, Ecosystem Services While Addressing Climate Change

Farmers from across the Americas will share how they manage both livestock and crops together using circular systems during an event hosted by Solutions from the Land at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Circular systems allow farmers and ranchers to grow food for their communities, enhance the environment and address climate change. The approach is tailored to individual farms based on their situations and needs and generally:

• Uses forages, crop residues and byproduct wastes, converting them into high-quality commodities.
• Provides food and nutritional security due to production of high-quality protein, essential fatty acids and bioavailable micronutrients.
• Retains and sequesters carbon and enhances other ecosystem services (like water quantity/quality and biodiversity).
• Provides and improves livelihoods for millions of farmers worldwide.

The event, “Circular System Pathways for Scaling Climate Smart Agriculture,” will be accessible via Zoom (access code: IICA*COP27) at 5:30 a.m. Eastern (12:30 p.m. ETT) Wednesday, Nov. 16.

Collaborating organizations include the Canadian Cattle Association, the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the Global Farmer Network.

The event, which will take place in the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture Pavilion, is one of five organized by Solutions from the Land during the conference, with goals to build support among policymakers and other stakeholders for SfL’s guiding principles for enabling food systems to support and attain the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. These principles emphasize the need to keep farmers at the center of all discussions and decision-making as well as to value science, technology, systems-based approaches, collaboration and innovation.