Animal welfare for production and working animals: evidence and need for action
01/10/2025
This technical paper draws attention to the importance of animal welfare and how it connects to wider social, environmental, and agricultural issues.
The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock
10/05/2025
GASL facilitates evidence-based dialogue to accelerate multi-stakeholder action to sustainability through livestock and systems solutions.
GASL Progress Report 2023
01/02/2025
Dairy and socio-economic development
10/11/2024
This report explores relationships between dairy sector development and several social indicators that are linked to milk and dairy from cattle.
Future perspectives of Brazilian beef production: what is the role of silvo-pastoral systems?
03/06/2024
Against the backdrop of changing production conditions and market requirements, it seems time has come to rethink Brazil’s beef production systems. We analyse the economic and environmental performance of three beef production systems: classic beef production system (CB), and two types of silvo-pastoral systems: the integrated crop-livestock-forestry system (ICLFS) and the natural regeneration system (NR) in a comparative case study analysis.
GASL Progress Report 2022
01/01/2023
Interactions between the Action networks, with the sustainability domains adopted by GASL
01/01/2023
This document develops a consistent and coordinated plan of actions among and within the ANs (CEG, GNSPS and L4SD) to enhance their alignment with the GASL sustainability domains and their main outputs (evidence and practice change, dialogue, and policy change).
Multifunctionality and diversity of livestock grazing systems for sustainable food systems throughout the world: Are there learning opportunities for Europe?
21/10/2022
Throughout the world, livestock grazing systems (LGS) include, and provide livelihoods for, many rural populations. These LGS are represented in a wide variety of agroecological contexts and offer a huge variety of system organization.
GASL 12th MSP Meeting 2022
07/10/2022
Agenda and Summary report of the twelfth GASL MSP Meeting held in Dublin, Ireland, in 2022.
Animal health and welfare for sustainable livestock systems
10/06/2022
In this publication the authors explore the diversity of livestock across the world…and highlight the synergies between good animal health and animal welfare and their positive multiple impacts.
GASL Action Plan 2022-2024
01/06/2022
International Women's Day 2022 - the Women in Business project
08/03/2022
Livestock provide vital nutrition and income for numerous households in developing countries. And it's often women who do the bulk of the work caring for the animals. But this doesn't mean they reap the benefits. In many communities, women are excluded from making management decisions about livestock, like when to sell them, or how to treat them. They also don't get to control the income that the livestock generate, or the valuable livestock products made.
Assessing resilience in the livestock sector of what, to what, and for whom?
01/02/2022
In 2020, GASL initiated a webinar series to provide a virtual space for its technical networks to profile relevant sustainability matters. The webinar ‘Assessing resilience in the livestock sector - of what, to what, and for whom?’ took place in February 2021, and considered multiple factors that support and challenge resilience, with a special focus on ruminants.
GASL Progress Report 2021
01/01/2022
Digitalizing the African livestock sector: Status quo and future trends for sustainable value chain development
04/10/2021
Livestock has a fundamental role in supporting the livelihoods of millions of rural households in Africa and is a key element in contributing to food security on the continent. The livestock sector is also the backbone of many African economies and the projected strong increase in demand for animal source foods offers tremendous opportunities for economic growth and the creation of new jobs in livestock value chains.
Immediate effects of COVID-19 on the global dairy sector
09/08/2021
The dairy sector is an example of the challenges that food supply chains have faced due to COVID-19. The pandemic has impacted the sector depending on countries’ trade profiles, per capita income, and market structure. The study reveals that the pandemic has accelerated on-going structural changes taking place in the dairy sector. Despite the preliminary nature of the results, they provide important insights to inform sectorial policy discussions.
Food Systems Summit 2021 - Synthesis of Independent Dialogues
01/07/2021
This second interim report synthesizes guidance from 103 FSSD Independent Dialogue feedback form reports submitted to an online database through the end of May 2021. This report presents ten guiding themes for identifying and implementing solutions, which build on the agenda-setting themes for the Summit presented in the first interim report.
GASL 11th MSP Meeting 2021
11/06/2021
Agenda and Summary report of the eleventh GASL MSP Meeting held virtually in 2021.
GASL Progress Report 2020
01/01/2021
GASL 10th MSP Meeting 2020
30/10/2020
Agenda and Summary report of the tenth GASL MSP Meeting held virtually in 2020.