Development banks funding industrial farms around the world | Interview with The Guardian, on Food Security

Experts who spoke to the Bureau emphasised that there should not be a one-size-fits-all approach to addressing the livestock sector’s impact on the climate crisis.

Dr Catherine Nkirote Kunyanga, a senior lecturer at the University of Nairobi’s Food Security Center, said expanding affordable livestock production was incredibly important in many countries where households still cannot maintain a healthy diet due to income or geography.

“One of the things we promote in nutrition is people consuming more animal-based protein, to actually address protein energy malnutrition, which is very rampant in Africa,” she said, adding that in some regions where the climate and soil do not suit growing crops, livestock farming is key to job security as well as nutrition.

She said global calls to reduce meat and dairy consumption to address climate change should be directed at western countries and that multilateral development banks should only invest in livestock expansion in countries with low meat-consumption levels.

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