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Le magnifique nouveau musée d’art ouest-africain (Mowaa) du Nigéria se retrouve au cœur des luttes de pouvoir locales.

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Integration of crop-livestock systems in Urubici, State of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Credit: Ivan Cheremisin's/Unsplash

By Appolinaire Djikeng
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 14 2025 (IPS)

As the world gathers in Brazil for the UN climate talks, the country’s livestock sector – one of the largest in the world – is understandably in the spotlight.

Livestock are a significant contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil (and around the world) and have been linked to deforestation, but these animals represent so much more than that to so many, especially in the Global South.

Brazil accounts for approximately 20 per cent of global beef exports. The livestock sector is a major contributor to the country’s economy – responsible for 8.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) and roughly nine million jobs.

For 1.3 billion people worldwide, livestock is a lifeline: a protector of livelihoods, guardian of nutrition, cornerstone of tradition, and potential pathway out of poverty. For the majority and especially pastoralists, reducing herd sizes is not an easy, or frankly viable, option.

COP30 is supposed to bring people from vastly different contexts together, to find solutions that work for everyone, as well as funding to enable it to happen. This year’s host offers special lessons for Africa’s livestock sector, as Brazil’s livestock sector was not always so productive and efficient.

Brazilian policies and investments have seen livestock productivity rise 61 per cent in the past two decades, while pasture land use and emissions intensity – that is, the emissions per unit of meat, milk or eggs produced – have gone down.

The key to this success has been avoiding uniform prescriptions and instead adopting regionally adapted and context-specific approaches.

For example, high-yield tropical grasses like Brachiaria have become central to boosting productivity across the country’s Cerrado region, improving cattle health and overall performance, and reducing costs. In southern Brazil, where smaller farms are more common, the integration of crop-livestock systems have increased land efficiency, promoted biodiversity, and diversified farm incomes. Mineral supplements and high-energy feeds have had the biggest impact in the Southeast of Brazil, where there are large feedlots.

Much like Brazil thirty years ago, many of today’s developing countries struggle to produce meat, milk and eggs efficiently. Poor quality feed, animal health, and genetics mean animals take much longer to reach slaughter weight or milk volume. Even if herd sizes are smaller, the emissions per unit of product can be 16 times higher.

The impact is that hunger and poverty are prevalent in these countries and, in some, still rising. Micronutrient deficiency – a result of insufficient animal-source food consumption – is also widespread among children, which has a devastating effect on health and economic development (contributing to annual GDP losses up to 16 per cent).

This is why at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) we are researching science-based interventions that raise productivity and cut emissions intensity. For example, MaziwaPlus is an animal health-oriented project focused on Mastitis, a disease in dairy cows responsible for milk yield losses of up to 25 per cent. With Scotland’s Rural College we are also working on highly digestible forages, which could result in 20 per cent methane emissions reductions. EnviroCow is another productivity-oriented initiative, trying to identify livestock that remain productive despite environmental challenges.

And ILRI’s work does not stop at research. The Institute also connects evidence with policy and practice, as seen in Kenya’s recent submission to the UNFCCC’s Sharm el-Sheikh portal, which cites participatory rangeland management approaches developed by ILRI and partners.

Unlocking these benefits at the global level will require reframing the worldwide sustainability discussion around livestock – seeing it as a solution to be invested in, rather than a problem to be swept under the rug.

For example, climate finance should start rewarding reductions in emissions intensity (not just absolute emissions), so that countries improving productivity and lowering emissions per litre of milk or kilo of meat are supported. Moreover, the world needs to invest far more than the 0.2 per cent of climate finance currently put towards livestock research and innovation (and even less to developing solutions in low- and middle-income countries).

Most importantly, livestock should be embedded in national climate plans. Livestock should be recognised as more than a source of emissions, and as an important solution for climate resilience, food security, and adaptation – especially in developing countries and regions where they are the backbone of rural economies.

But as COP30 concludes, the conversation cannot end there.

This year’s conference must be a moment when the world recognises that livestock, managed well, are an important part of a more pragmatic global strategy which both protects the planet and raises the welfare of its people.

The timing could not be more fitting as next year will begin the UN-declared International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. Rangelands cover over half of the Earth’s land surface, store vast amounts of carbon, and support hundreds of millions of pastoralist livestock keepers, yet barely feature in most national climate plans.

If we choose to recognise and act on the potential of rangelands and pastoralists, they can become one of the great success stories of climate and development – driven by science, stewardship, and local knowledge.

Professor Appolinaire Djikeng is the Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

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DRAFT REPORT on the EU enlargement strategy
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Petras Auštrevičius

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DRAFT REPORT on the EU enlargement strategy
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Petras Auštrevičius

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 124 - 306 - Entwurf eines Berichts Änderung der Verordnungen (EG) Nr. 1907/2006, (EG) Nr. 1272/2008, (EU) Nr. 528/2012, (EU) 2019/1021 und (EU) 2021/697 hinsichtlich der Verteidigungsbereitschaft und der Erleichterung von Investitionen im Verteidigungsbereich und der Bedingungen für die Verteidigungsindustrie
Ausschuss für Umweltfragen, öffentliche Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit
Ausschuss für Industrie, Forschung und Energie
Ausschuss für Sicherheit und Verteidigung
Antonio Decaro, Aura Salla, Sven Mikser

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Ungarn – der engste Verbündete des Kremls innerhalb der EU – ist weiterhin stark von russischen Energieimporten abhängig.

Depuis la découverte de ses manuscrits en arabe où il raconte sa vie et son origine, des chercheurs américains et sénégalais se sont lancés à la recherche de ses origines. Un groupe de chercheurs sénégalais pense avoir identifié enfin le village en question au cœur du Fouta, au nord du Sénégal.

Depuis la découverte de ses manuscrits en arabe où il raconte sa vie et son origine, des chercheurs américains et sénégalais se sont lancés à la recherche de ses origines. Un groupe de chercheurs sénégalais pense avoir identifié enfin le village en question au cœur du Fouta, au nord du Sénégal.

L'Allemagne s'est engagée à disposer d'une force de frappe d'environ 260 000 soldats d'ici 2035.

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WARSAW, 17 November 2025 – To ensure an effective response to hate crime and meaningful access to justice for victims, there is an ever more urgent need to develop systematic and long-term training programmes for police and prosecutors across the OSCE region that also involve targeted communities, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said today on launching its annual hate crime report on the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance.

“Hate crime has a devastating effect not just on individual victims, but on entire communities. Training is at the heart of an effective hate crime response,” said ODIHR Director Maria Telalian. “Every police officer, prosecutor and judge needs the tools and skills to recognize hate crimes, protect victims, and bring perpetrators to justice. ODIHR has seen first-hand how training can positively transform the criminal justice response to hate crime and repair the harm suffered by victims and their communities.”

While many OSCE states have established national training programmes, including comprehensive hate crime training initiatives for law enforcement, many still fail to provide even foundational training for prosecutors or judges. In particular, this year’s hate crime report finds that national initiatives too often remain ad hoc in nature and limited in reach. Embedding hate crime training into police academies and judicial schools and maintaining levels of knowledge through refresher courses is essential to ensuring long-term impact.

For the last 20 years, ODIHR has addressed these challenges by delivering its hate crime training programmes to approximately 700 national police trainers and more than 200 national prosecutor trainers across the OSCE region. To ensure the broadest reach of its hate crime training programmes, the Office will soon publish the full package of adaptable, interactive and hands-on training materials on its website.

ODIHR’s experience shows how the impact of training programmes is deepened when the communities affected by hate crime are engaged in developing and delivering the training. When police and prosecutors listen to and work with targeted groups, it strengthens trust, encourages victims to report, and improves co-operation – all key to effectively investigating and prosecuting hate crimes.

The Office’s dedicated hate crime website is updated each year with data and information provided by states, civil society and international organizations. More information and resources to support states and civil society in addressing hate crime are available here.

ENTWURF EINER STELLUNGNAHME zu der Entlastung für die Ausführung des Haushaltsplans der Europäischen Union für das Haushaltsjahr 2024 – Kommission
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Evin Incir

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L'arrêt de la CJUE stipule que seuls les spiritueux répondant à la définition légale peuvent être vendus sous le nom de « gin ».

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601482 Munira Shoinbekova, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe

On the occasion of the professional day of the militia in Tajikistan, the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe organized an official ceremony on 11 November 2025 to hand over 25 sets of desktop computers, printers, and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) National Co-ordinator on Police Reform.

The donated ICT equipment will strengthen the work of the Public Councils on ensuring public order, operating under the regional and district departments of the MIA. The equipment will help enhance planning and reporting on the activities of the Public Councils, conducted in close co-operation with territorial police inspectors, thereby contributing to improved public order and community safety.

In his remarks, Major General Safiallo Azizullozoda, MIA National Co-ordinator on Police Reform, said: “The OSCE and its Office in Dushanbe consistently strive to support the Ministry in its efforts to advance the police reform process in Tajikistan. Today’s donation of ICT equipment underscores our mutual commitment to promoting community policing principles through Public Councils. Our co-operation in this area will continue.” 

This activity is part of the OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe’s continued support to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in advancing police reform and promoting community policing in Tajikistan.