 My name is Mario Redo and I am the leader of the Sustainable Livestock Futures theme at ILRI. Okay, so you just come back from a people livestock environment meeting where there was a understand a bit of a competition. Can you tell us what exactly happened? Yes, well people were asked to submit big ideas, ideas that could attract significant funding from 10 million to 100 million dollars and well people had a lot of ideas. That's really good. We heard about 8 to 10 different things that could potentially attract that kind of funding. I think that the kind of work that PLE does is extremely relevant for the topics of the moment all related around food security about how do we make the livestock sector far more efficient and so on. Okay, and whose proposal won and where was it about? We had a couple of proposals that referred really well. One of them is really about the need for us to really understand if the smallholder sector will be competitive. For example, we don't know what's best. Should we go for large scale commercial farms or should we go for sustainably intensifying the smallholder sector? That is a question that still requires empirical evidence and I think that it is necessary to generate this evidence across several dimensions. This is not really only about environmental efficiencies or about any other type of efficiencies but this is also about what is best for the people and for feeding the world, what's going to happen to employment, what's going to happen to livelihoods and others. We need to provide a balanced view of these different avenues of farming for the future of the world of food security. Okay, are there other proposals that you found quite interesting and relevant for Ilri's work? Of course. Look, all these proposals regardless have a real chance of attracting information. For example, all the work on resilience of pastoral systems is going to be extremely important. Work on climate change and adaptation, also biomass competition. All these areas are crucial for us to generate better solutions for the livestock sector. Okay, and in general what do you see as the future for the people livestock and environment theme thematic team at Ilri? Where should it be headed? Well, I think it has a very bright future. It has a lot of scope for growth and for being a big player in the global agenda on livestock.