A presentation on a positive role that research can play supporting development interventions by Fiona Flintan, in December 2022 at the EU workshop: Regional programme in livestock and pastoralism for climate change adaptation in Eastern/Horn of Africa, Movenpick Hotel, Nairobi

A presentation on the positive role that research can play in supporting development interventions by Fiona Flintan, in December 2022 at the EU workshop: Regional programme in livestock and pastoralism for climate change adaptation in Eastern/Horn of Africa, Movenpick Hotel, Nairobi

This article analyzes literature on the history of cattle ranching and agricultural innovation adoption in Colombia to understand how livestock production systems have evolved from the 1950s until today. Departing from new scholarship that has questioned the idea that cattle ranching has been only a land-grabbing strategy dominated by few elites, this article focuses on the adoption of improved pastures and the role of key institutions such as the CIAT on the transformation of practices and the shortcomings of technification.

This information note summarizes the state of livestock farming in the Orinoco region and the conditions that combine there to develop GANSO (abbreviation for sustainable livestock farming in Spanish, Ganaderia Sostenible), an innovative technical and financial assistance program aimed at a transformation to low-carbon and sustainable livestock farming that embraces productive, economic, social and environmental factors.