 Across the world, the livestock sector plays an important role in reducing poverty, achieving food security and nutrition, and promoting sustainable food systems, but the sector is facing many challenges. To help address them, FAO is working with governments, international partners, civil society organizations and the private sector. In a bid to further strengthen global efforts to support the livestock sector, and the role it can play in contributing towards the world's sustainable development goals, FAO's Committee on Agriculture established the subcommittee on livestock. Sustainable livestock system is the interface of the four benefits, better production, better nutrition, better environment, better life for all, leaving no one behind. We need a sustainable livestock system. The work of the subcommittee will directly contribute to the needed transformation towards more efficient, more inclusive, more resilient and more sustainable ecosystem. In March 2022, the first session of the subcommittee on livestock elected the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Argentina to FAO, Carlos Cerniak, as the subcommittee's chairperson. The first session discussed a broad range of important topics, including good practices and pathways to sustainable livestock for food security, nutrition and poverty reduction. The session also focused on climate change in the management of natural resources and raised suggestions for how the One Health approach can be adopted into future policies and decisions. The establishment of the subcommittee on livestock was really driven by the demand of FAO members with the aim to strengthen COAC and to provide a first intergovernmental forum for discussion and building consensus on livestock issues and related priorities. The aim was to advise COAC and through its FAO governing bodies on key technical and policy-related matters. The first session of the subcommittee on livestock, which was held in March, was therefore a true milestone. Its outcomes and advice will be considered at the upcoming 28th session of the Committee on Agriculture, which has a focus on policies, programs and actions needed to optimize the contribution of livestock to sustainable agri-food systems. And the priorities rely on how to reduce and achieve food security and nutrition for all, to reduce poverty, provide sustainable livelihoods and promote a One Health approach. The report of the first session of the subcommittee is a document that is going to guide the work of FAO, but also it's going to guide the work of member nations and the work of our partners. This forum on livestock is the best place to get together and agree on the main issues they have to collaborate on. Through global collaboration, we have a chance to transform the livestock sector, developing better policies and practices around the world and ensuring a more sustainable future for all.