Livestock intensification and the role of finance in the Food System

DISCLAIMER The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author/s and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Food System Economics Commission, including its Commissioners, Co-Chairs and Principals, or the IKEA Foundation. [...] The Plan had mixed success in its first phase ending in 2020, but did manage to support the adoption of better management practices in livestock production in the end 22, and is now in its second phase. [...] Finally, accounting for the recalcitrance of the sector to discussions on diet change, scenarios are produced with diet change that falls short of a full shift to the EAT-Lancet diet central to the full FST. [...] Results Figure 1 shows a heat map summarising the main results of the study with resulting outcome indicators for a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario based on the Shared Socio-economic Pathway 2 (SSP2) in 2050 and the changes relative to it from the packages of measures and the full FST pathways, with columns categorized outcomes into Health, Environment, Inclusivity and Economic domains. [...] Despite the large number of participants, the vast majority of the credit lines to the livestock sector from the official Rural Credit programme is channelled through a small number of institutions, with Banco do Brasil as the dominant lender.