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PhD course on the Future of Tropical Livestock Systems, 7-9 May 2025
Are you a PhD-student interested in tropical livestock systems, animal source foods, transitions, and sustainability? We offer a course (7-9 May, 2025) in which you will explore the web of drivers that affect tropical livestock systems, and learn how to select methodologies to design and evaluate pathways to sustainable livestock systems, while meeting multiple sustainability demands and addressing a plurality of values.
Background
Globally, tropical livestock production systems need to adapt to climate change, growing demand for animal source food, and resource scarcity. Transitions to sustainable future systems are guided by a wide variety of drivers and demands. Understanding these drivers and the nature of system transitions is essential for the design of meaningful interventions. Especially as transitions depend on the values, roles, priorities, and commitments of stakeholders involved.
After this course, participants will have increased abilities to:
- Explore the technical and social complexity of defining sustainable transition pathways for tropical livestock systems, incorporating various roles of livestock and choosing appropriate system levels for analysis and planning.
- Navigate the various people-profit-planet sustainability objectives for livestock systems, such as food production, market participation, climate change, biodiversity, circularity, and feed-food competition.
- Identify the technical, social and institutional changes required for facilitating system transition, such as technology development and adoption, financing, and policies.
- Explore the applicability of a variety of methods for tropical livestock systems, including modelling at various system levels, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Location and registration
Wageningen University campus, Wageningen, The Netherlands. For more information and registration please follow this link