 My name is Michael Victor. I'm working with Illry as well. Just to continue on, the internet in Ethiopia is not so good, so just to keep things moving. We are going to be doing social reporting and tweeting live, so please use hashtag everybody who likes to tweet. Please go ahead and tweet and use these hashtags. We have hashtag livestock dialogue, hashtag why livestock matter, hashtag gossel 2020, and hashtag Africa. So please go ahead and use those. Next slide, please. And just a reminder that we are recording this, both the audio and the video. All the chats that you put into the chat box will be saved. We'll use the main ones. We're not going to use people's own chats and everything, but we will use this for collecting ideas and collecting reflections, so we'll use that. And discussions, photos, and other materials may be posted on social media sites. So just remember that anything that's here, it will be open access and accessible later on. Okay, the next slide, please. Okay, I'd like to hand it over to Dr. Saboni Moyo to introduce the session and get us going. Thank you. Thank you very much, Michael, for this opportunity. I would like to welcome everyone again joining my colleagues on behalf of the organizers. We welcome you from across the world to the global agenda for sustainable livestock, multistakeholder partnership. This is the Africa One regional meeting. I'm privileged to be your moderator as we start today's meeting. My bandwidth is a bit low, so I might go off video. I don't know if you seen that, but just to proceed without interruptions. Today is the beginning of Africa One regional meeting, which is for in-group speaking countries. This will be held over the next two days, and it's held under the theme lessons from COVID-19 for building back a better future through sustainable livestock. The goal of this year's meeting is to identify COVID-19's impacts and strategize stakeholder responses from across the world to build forward a more sustainable future by addressing challenges and opportunities in the livestock sector. Colleagues, friends, we are delighted to note that we have more than 215 people registered for this meeting. This really demonstrates a high interest, which is an indicator that the livestock sector has a lot to contribute to addressing the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have in this meeting representatives from government, from research and academia, from the private sector, civil society, farmer organizations, multilateral and regional organizations, as well as investors. This diversity in the presence of expertise and organization represents here a wealth of knowledge and experience, which we all look forward to contributing and bringing together to enrich the discussions in these two days. Vincent, if you could go back to the previous slide, please. At this moment, I would like to present to you the objectives of this Regional Africa One meeting. We are here in these two days to present regional impacts of COVID-19 around the four sustainability domains. These domains are food and nutrition security, livelihoods and economic growth, animal health and animal welfare, and climate and resource use. The second reason why we're coming together is to identify options in the short, medium and long run on how the livestock sector could improve its response through a sustainable livestock approach with solutions from multistakeholder groups. We're delighted that you are able to join us these two days. Next slide, please. Outputs from these regional discussions will fit into the global events. The chair of the Global Agenda will touch a bit more about some of these global events. So what we'll be deliberating on today and tomorrow and these outputs, they will contribute to the global events of 2021, the dozen multistakeholder platform meeting and the 2021 Food Systems Summit. So we'll hear a bit more about that later. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a full agenda ahead of us. Therefore, I will not take much more time from this rich agenda ahead. I would like at this moment to draw your attention to our next session, which is the welcome remarks. Next slide, please. In this session, we will have remarks from four speakers. We are grateful for their time and we look forward to their interventions. Before we start, I would also like to draw attention to everyone who will be contributing throughout this meeting. But please stick to the time that has been allocated so that we can end and start our sessions on time. Thank you so much for your attention. At this time, I would like to warmly welcome the chair of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, Darzel. This is Fris Snider. Over to you, Fris. Thank you very much, Poni. It's my great pleasure to open this session. It's a second regional meeting we have. We had one in Oceania. It's great that we have more or about the same number of registrations here as we had in the global meeting a year ago in Kansas. It shows the enormous interest and makes us very proud and looking forward to this meeting. I give you a very short introduction. This will not be long. The Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock is a multi-stakeholder partnership and has been working since 2011 with the goal of promoting sustainable animal production around the world. The SDGs of the UN Agenda 2030, they're actually also posted behind me, built the reference frame for the Global Agenda. With its 115 institutional members belonging to all strata of society, the Global Agenda works towards more sustainability in the livestock sector by facilitating dialogue, assembling science-based evidence, and by advocating practice and policy change. You can find a poster on the Global Agenda with a bit more information in the share fare of this meeting. Usually, the Global Agenda has a multi-stakeholder partnership meeting once a year to bring together a wide diversity of livestock sector actors to address issues of sustainable development. Of course, this year's meeting, which was initially scheduled for June here in Switzerland, could not take place and has been postponed for one year. Instead, taking advantage of the virtual world we all live in at the moment, a series of regional meetings are being held in eight regions, culminating in a global meeting under the same lessons from COVID-19 for building back a better future through sustainable livestock. Our regional meeting today and tomorrow is an important part of a long-term process to promote and advocate for sustainable livestock. This meeting will feed into the global meeting in two weeks' time. Results and recommendations from this will inform the 2021 Gassel meeting in Switzerland and then these results will promote sustainable livestock within the World Food Systems Summit taking place in October 2021. I sincerely thank the organizing committee for your highly appreciated work and commitment. The organizers are from Ilri, Shirley, Dariwali, Sindia, Mugo, Michael, Victor. Then we have Bernard Kimorro, Ministry of Agriculture Kenya, Martin Barassa from Vetnes, on Frontier, Germany, Moet Abubakar, Federal Ministry of Agriculture Nigeria, Robin and Bea, Ministry of Agriculture Kenya, and Zimplis Nwala, Fonku, Africa Union Commission. I now wish us all a very interesting and fruitful meeting and I also look forward to seeing you all at our World Wildlife Event from 14th to 18th September. Thank you again and see you very soon. Thank you. Thank you very much for your opening remarks. At this moment I would like to warmly welcome Jimmy Smith who is the Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute. Over to you Jimmy. Thank you Bunny and hello colleagues from across the world. I'm pleased to be part of this virtual regional meeting on lessons from COVID-19 for building back a better future through sustainable livestock. Ilri is pleased to be joining forces with African Union Commission DREM, the Ministry of Agriculture of Kenya, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture of Nigeria, and the US of Germany, and of course the global agenda itself. We're pleased to be part of facilitating this meeting on a very important topic and to be able to bring together virtually over 200 individuals from over 31 countries across the world. We've had an interest, a great interest in this from Argentina to Zimbabwe. It is of real importance for us to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on the poor sustainable sustainability domains of food and nutrition security, animal health and animal welfare, livelihoods and economic growth, and climate and natural resources, and to discern and pursue solutions that sustainable livestock systems can contribute in this context. Pre-COVID-19, they available evidence point to a large and rapidly growing demand for animal service foods in Africa. With a projected increase of over 70% in just two decades from 2010 to from 2010 to 2030 due mostly to the continent's increasing population. In 2030, Africa's population is expected to consume 125% more beef, 60% more poultry, 46% more milk, and 77% more eggs than it did in 2010. The African market for animal source foods is estimated to reach $151 billion by 2050. Estimates indicate that on the current conditions, a large share of this demand will be met through exports, costly in terms of the drain on the continent's foreign exchange, and indeed a missed opportunity for thousands or hundreds of millions of Africans who depend on livestock or their livelihoods. The creation of the African wide free trade area offers an unprecedented opportunity to the livestock sector in Africa to reverse these trade flows by meeting internal demands and also for exports. With the right investments and policies, this can be done. COVID-19, a pandemic that has impacted every part of society, not least the livestock sector itself, threatens to disrupt economic and social life for the long term if not managed well. So this virtual meeting and the global engagement later this month is both very timely and very relevant. Through this forum, we are providing an opportunity for everyone here to share their experiences and lessons in addressing the pandemic challenges through livestock. We are keen to see what innovations and lessons are being learned and how we can share these more widely. I'm therefore very pleased to welcome minister of livestock and fisheries from the Republic of South Sudan, Honorable Oyoti Adegu Nayak, the Permanent Secretary from the Ministry of Livestock of Kenya, Honorable Harry Kintai, and from Nigeria, Dr. Abdul Kadir Moussa, these three countries with significant livestock industries will make remarks and I hope through their contributions and these contributions from this conference, these countries and others, we can make a significant impact on how the livestock sector is responding to COVID-19. I hope this would be beneficial for all, as it certainly would be for Hillary and for me personally. Thank you very much. Thank you, Jimmy, for the welcome remarks. To give us the opening remarks, I'm delighted at this moment to welcome the Principal Secretary to the State Department of Livestock, the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Corporatives in Kenya, Mr. Harry Kintai over to you, Sen. Can I check if Mr. Kintai is online? Maybe he's there to connect. While we wait for him, I will move on at this moment and invite for opening remarks Dr. Abdul Kadir Moussa, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria. My audio is letting me down. I'm sorry. Can you hear me now? Yes, thank you. Over to you. Yes, I am pleased to join this meeting and to give an opening remarks at the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, our property meeting Africa 1, titled from Crisis to Actions, Lesson from COVID-19 for Building a Better Future Through Sustainable Livestock. Livestock plays a key role in the socioeconomic well-being of Nigerians aside from providing the much needed animal protein in our diets. The COVID-19 pandemic, which was first reported in the country on the 27th of February, 2020 has had huge impact on the livestock sector in our country. Businesses have been lost. Several animals died of starvation. Prizes of animal feed ingredients are located beyond the reach of feed producers and livestock farmers. Breeding has almost become impossible through natural artificial insemination due to the non-body conformity of animals as a result of hunger. To achieve some of the challenges faced by livestock farmers and solve them, the Ministry of Agriculture already developed and carried out priority actions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. Specifically, the Ministry facilitated access to livestock input, such as quality dairy or chicks, point of place to replace some of the large numbers currently and prematurely sold due to feed shortages. Ruminant feeds, mineral salt leaks, milking cans, milk cooling tanks, crop residues, crushing machines, forest choppers, pasture processing and transportation improvement were also provided to sustainably support the immediate attractiveness of livestock farmers. In addition, the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development set up a committee to ensure free movement of livestock and livestock products, including ensuring that the abattoirs remain open for meat processing. Similarly, due to the escalating costs of animal feed, the present approved the release of 5,000 metric tons of maize for animal feed, particularly to support the poultry farmers. In Nigeria, the livestock sector shows almost the whole diversity of the sector worldwide. From extensive pastoral nomadic systems to periavan, small-scale semi-intensive mixed crop livestock farms to intensive large-scale systems, especially monogastric production units, the last stock sector, though growing at a slow pace in our country, has the potential to do better with increased funding, rescaling and coordination. Despite this, the demand for livestock and livestock products continue to rise, especially milk and meat. Thus making private investment in the livestock sector in our country very promising and potentially very profitable. The critical sustainability factor for livestock industry will require governments and other stakeholders across the continent to take necessary reforms that will address sustainable livestock enterprises across the value chain. Creating an evolving environment for a more animal-friendly livestock production, transformation, transportation, marketing, and consumption. Farmers must also work in a way that respect the animals, especially their rights, the environment, and the people. In conclusion, sustainable livestock production is anchored around maintaining good breed, health, and nutrition. Efforts should therefore be geared towards good nutrition with attendant positive impact on animal health. We are appreciating the opportunity to join this meeting. I look forward to making new connections and hearing the feedback from across the continent. I wish the meeting fruitful deliberations and successful outcomes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Dr. Abdul Kadim Wanzi from Nigeria, for sharing with us the vast livestock resources that your country has and also touching on some of the opportunities and maybe the challenges that need addressing. And we look forward to your engagement and continued sharing of Nigeria's experiences and how you're responding to some of the COVID-19 pandemic impacts. At this moment, I would like to welcome Mr. Herakinta, the Principal Secretary, State Department of Livestock, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock Fisheries and Corporatives from Kenya, over to make your opening remarks. Thank you so much. Thank you, Madam. I want to take this opportunity to apologize. I think I was connected. I hope you are hearing me. Yes, I can hear you well. We can also see you, Sen. Welcome. Great. I thank you. This technology sometimes can fail us, but we also thank this technology because it has enabled us to meet during these difficult times. Allow me to acknowledge the presence of Fritz Snyder, the Chair Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, Dr. Jim Smith, the Director General of the National Livestock Research Institute, Best Chair in Kenya, my colleague from Nigeria, Honorable Abdul Kadir Moasa, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, distinguished workshop participants, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I am pleased to join you this afternoon in these very important discussions on lessons learned from COVID-19 for building a better future through sustainable livestock. I want to say that indeed the current situation that we are in is not something that was planned, but I think it happened and it's across the world. And therefore, it's important that we engage in this discussion in order to understand and learn lessons that we got from this current situation. And I want to say that here in Kenya, since the first COVID case in Kenya that was reported in March 2020, we have seen a lot of changes. We have seen a lot of our farmers going through a difficult time, especially on unplanned demands. And this is because we saw reduced demand for livestock products due to closure of most of the restaurants and hotels. And this was as a result of the government action to contain COVID-19, where everything was closed. We've also seen reduction in inputs that farm inputs that are supposed to be supplied to the farmers. There was also a challenge on cash flows. There was also restrictions on movement as a result. Goods were not moving freely and this increased the cost of the inputs. In Kenya, we've noticed that we had also challenges of the animal health and the extension services because at one point, we needed to understand the situation that we are in and therefore we needed to come up with the protocols so that we can coordinate with the life. We also saw an increased loss for the hatcheries due to reduced demand for the day old chicks because most of the hatcheries closed to shop. We saw a low supply of agro inputs because of lack of trade between countries and where the supplies come from. The veterinary drugs and other inputs that are really needed in the livestock subset could not be accessed by the farmers. The closure of international borders and national flights reduced losses of business for agro presses. This resulted into a disruption of flow of goods, as I've just mentioned earlier, and also our exports were actually stopped so we could not export to our international markets. The Kenya government, through the State Department for Livestock, placed in place actions to mitigate the effects of this pandemic. This included the following. Number one, what we did as a government and the State Department for Livestock to gather with the Minister of Health, we developed the protocols and guidelines for interrupted services in the Livestock-based food supply chains and handling of foods of animal origin. We reviewed sanitation protocols for slaughterhouses, butcheries, and other sales outlets to facilitate safety and to ensure that there is customer confidence. A post COVID-19 recovery strategy was put in place that identifies the actions and programs for enhanced recovery and resilience of livestock-based food systems. The proposed programs in the strategy included input subsidies, credit support, development of livestock cold chain systems for SMS, I mean SMS. We developed a contract for targeting the imports of animal foodstuffs, development of livestock water and marketing infrastructure, livestock business control systems, among the others. We have recognized the importance of working with the multi-sector actors right across the sector to address these multiple challenges from the private and public sector that included both the large and small-scale development partners. We also engaged other research institutions and academia to come up with other means or proposals that will be able to sustain our strategies. I want also to mention that out of this we learned a lot of experiences and what we did was we established what's called a multi-sector platform. This we named it food security war room. During this pandemic, that was the very important instrument in coordinating the stakeholders and addressing the emerging challenges promptly. This, as I said, helped us to come up with the protocols within the shortest time possible. This we also did by identifying the carriers that we need to track and ensure that all the stakeholders, including the government, the private sector and the development partners, bring all their resources together so that we can surmount the challenges that were ahead of us. The staff from the State Department of Livestock have been engaged in the planning and preparations as committee members and others were participating fully to ensure that there is free flow of food both from the producers to the consumers. As a result, this enabled us to ensure that there was an interrupted supply. And indeed, this really was a very great opportunity to connect in many ways and develop and we developed new ways that we had not engaged previously with our stakeholders. As a result, there is now very close collaboration between the private sectors and the government in tackling this pandemic. I won't say that this experience really gave the government an opportunity also to come up with the new strategies that will be used in future where we face such kind of disasters. So indeed, it was a really great learning experience. I mean, this was a learning experience and we learned a lot. In conclusion, I want to thank the organizers of this event led by the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock for this wonderful event. And I think it is really good to share globally on each other's challenges and how we manage to surmount these challenges. I wish to say that let's continue contributing to ensure that we have sustainable solutions and share knowledge on issues of livestock production and especially on livestock systems knowing that at times there could be some interruptions. More so in Africa where most of our systems are not yet really fully developed. I therefore want to thank all of you and wish you a good deliberations and let's come up with solutions that will help the livestock sector to continue contributing in its sustainable development. Thank you and God bless you. Thank you very much, Principal Secretary, for sharing on Kenya's experiences and really touching on some of the concrete activities that the sector is taking. The notes from the presenters will all be shared through the website and the other materials. So please take note and you can follow up to view or read some of the details that the PS had. Thank you, Sir. I hope you'll be able to join us through the other sessions. We look forward to learn more from what is going on in Kenya. I would like at this moment to thank all the presenters in this session and thank you for sharing and also reminding us that what we are deliberating on today and tomorrow will contribute to the global matters they're called a partnership meeting from 14 to 18 September. So thank you very much. Please join me in thanking them in your own space or online where you are. Thank you very much. At this moment we'd like to move on and the next session is by my colleague, Cynthia Muko, who is the policy and stakeholder engagement advisor at Illry. She will take us through the overview of this meeting. Thank you, Cynthia. Over to you. Thank you, Bonnie. Hello, everyone. It's really good to be here. We have organized for you an agenda that is interactive, engaging and that will ensure that we get the dialogue and we get to solutions. So we've started session one, as you've seen, that started with opening from our esteemed guest speakers. We also get to listen to four framing presentations of the impact of COVID-19 around four domain areas. Thereafter we get to the exciting part of this today's session where we will continue the discussions that have been started through the framing presentations in groups. At the end of session one, after we have our inflection and wrap up, we will open the share fair where we will interact in exchange ideas on the work we are all doing related to COVID-19. At this point, we hope to take a very short break. We return to session two, where in addition to participating more in the share fair, we will have an engaging conversation to be set up by an exciting group of panelists. Session two, session three, day two is all about finding solutions and co-creating actions on how the livestock sector can contribute to building back better. I hope you're all ready for three very engaging sessions that will generate a lot of information. Next slide, please. So Bonnie earlier mentioned that we got a lot of interest. We got around 15 participants who registered. They were from 32 countries, 16 in Africa, Anglophone Africa, and also to note that it's truly a multi-stakeholder meeting. We have representations from private sector, public sector, academia, civil society, development partners. So we are expecting a very, very rich conversation. So to get right into session one, we have already kicked off, which is the next slide, please. We've kicked it off with our welcoming objectives and our presentations from the speakers. So we are getting right into the framing presentations next. Then you'll do some group discussion, reflection, and we take a break as we view the share fair posters. So the framing presentation, which is coming next, will be moderated by Dr. Syntia Nwala, who is the head of Agriculture and Food Security at the Africa Union Commission. Dr. Nwala oversees the implementation of AU decisions on agricultural growth and transformation. Syntia, please, over to you, please. Thank you, everyone, and welcome. Thank you, Syntia. I'm trying to switch on my video. Thank you very much, Syntia, and good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to this second part of the first session of our virtual meeting. This second part of our sessions will basically deal with the lessons that we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. And this will be done around the four sustainable lifestyle sector domains. Just to recall these domains, we have food security, livelihood and economic growth, animal health and welfare, and finally climate and natural resource use. First speaker is Dr. David Haver. He is the program manager, director for land all lakes, Venture 37, providing management and technical oversight to server projects in Africa and the Caucasus. They have John V. 37 in November 24, and he has over 25 years, experience of livelihood development across the mobile device chain in Africa. They are still actively involved in this farm in northern Zambia, where he had gestures to supply the districts down. So, James, you are welcome to share with us the impact of COVID-19 on food security. David, over to you. Good afternoon. Good morning, everybody. This is Dai Harvey, and my senior one said to my Zambian colleagues that I hear and can see on the screen and are talking to us. Could you go to the next slide, please? COVID-19 continues to disrupt many countries around the world, and the food security and livelihoods of many people are at risk. Prior to COVID-19, approximately a third of the world's population were not getting the correct balance of nutrition, and because of the pandemic, the UN reports that an additional 130 million people will fall into the status of food insecurity due to the pandemic. This is truly a very worrying situation. Access to sustainably produced affordable, safe, and nutritionist-sourced foods, meat, dairy, and eggs is critical to reducing stunting and adequately feeding rural and urban communities and maintaining economic and environmental stability. However, based on a pulse survey that was conducted by Venture37 in Rwanda, Mozambique, Georgia, and Bangladesh across section and across parts of the world, of less developed parts of the world, during July of 2020, we found that due to the pandemic, consumption and animal-sourced foods had approximately fallen by 37 percent. Development organizations, agribusiness, private sector partners must adapt to COVID-19's disruption by building back a more resilient and inclusive livestock food system to cost-effectively supply these nutrient-dense foods to the poorer communities. As communities recover, we need to work out the best way and the most leveraged way to develop and support these markets that have been disrupted to ensure that nutrient-dense food is more accessible for marginalized food compared to where it was before the COVID situation. As global leaders in sustainable livestock production and animal-sourced food programming, Lander Lake's Venture37 and our partners, including ILRI, look across market systems to try to find solution. Part of my presentation will be to show some of those possible solutions and some of the ways that there are opportunities going forward by no means saying that these are the only solutions, but giving some examples of that. Lander Lake's, as you know, Lander Lake's Inc., our major collaborator, is a $15 billion agribusiness with diverse agribusinesses, technologies, insights in animal nutrition, crop inputs, dairy, data analytics, and sustainability. Paired this with nearly 40 years of agricultural development in Lander Lake's Venture37, we have a powerful toolkit for creating customized solutions for livestock food systems across the world. I'm going to give you a few examples, which I hope we'll be able to dig into a little later on, and I'm very happy to respond to them. In Rwanda, we've had a good example where poultry production, there's been major pressure on the poultry production, and particularly around egg production. With this, there was a response by USAID in the Feed the Future, Rohara-Rohazi Program and Activity, Ministry of Agriculture through the Government of Rwanda, and supported by Rwanda's National Early Childhood Development Program, who targeted children across the country to ensure that they had access to eggs. Numerous children and households received 21 egg producers benefiting from this activity, ensuring that eggs were available to people on the ground and to poor households on the ground. Similarly, other efforts with Venture37 working alongside Illry and the area of Africa dairy genetic gains, ensuring that the genetic makeup of dairy animals in Tanzania and Ethiopia, with over 200,000 farmers being touched in all of those areas to ensure that there is adequate milk being produced in Tanzania and Ethiopia, and allowing farmers better access to milk and dairy products. In addition, we understand that different agricultural value chains are not siloed and we believe that it's very important that there is an integration between crops and livestock and the market systems in order to build true resiliency and mitigate against the devastating effects of climate change and protect animal-sourced foods. In such instances, it's very important to involve and engage private sector, and this is to allow for sustainability and also to take the burden off host country governments that have many other aspects. Such a partnership is another simple partnership that is currently underway in Kenya, which is covering and focusing on crop production. Next slide, please. Hello. Next slide, please. The existing structures and challenges are being exacerbated by COVID-19 making food security an immediate concern and impacts are being felt through the food system along the value chain from producers to intermediaries and to consumers. The necessary global response to the pandemic has led to severe disruptions in availability of inputs and extension support, fractured input and output supply chains, closed market places, and reduced incomes. As a result, the WFP estimates that the number of people who will be actually hungry mostly in Africa will double this year and the World Bank forecast agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa will fall by three to seven percent. In this graphic, you will see illustrated the dairy value chain in East Africa. We know that the dairy industry has an important role to play in feeding Africa's growing population, reducing chronic malnutrition and the effects of the, that affects the continent. However, COVID-19 has a number of negative impacts on African dairy sector, including lack of movement of people and goods within and across borders. The dairy processes in particular can provide a strategic resource to allow small holders to connect to markets and allow them to improve their livelihoods and also improve access to animal source foods. There's also been a significant loss in purchasing power due to lack of jobs. We've already heard from the PSs in both countries about the challenges around the closing of hospitality industries and that has also allowed us reduced livelihoods. Though these challenges exist, dairy in particular is an attractive and impactful investment for COVID-19 response and recovery, helping the region to build back better for a more sustainable and nutritional food system. Dairy products are not only often the sole source of specific micron nutrients, building back immune systems such as B12, vitamin A, calcium, etc., but dairy production also contributes to a more reliable source of year-round income compared to high-risk rain-fed agriculture. As dairy is local it is both good for the consumer and the producer. Farmers are able to get their milk to market and the consumers have access affordable dairy products. This creates an opportunity for near-term continuous nutrient frequent response to the pandemic. What's more there is a significant private sector interest in investment and engagement particularly in support of a sustainable dairy value chain. What is our response to this and what do we suggest is our response? Farmers, if possible, need to invest now to continue to increase production for the future, realizing and knowing that cows have medium to biological and have nine months to produce a calf, so it is very important to keep the farmers moving ahead and being able to have access to ensure that their cows are bred. It's important also to ensure the continued operation of markets, both formal markets and the informal that are able to access poorer households. It's also important to ensure that the affordable products getting to consumers that they are safe and nutritious. While most of the consumption of dairy products across the region is through informal markets there is a significant opportunity of farmer-allied intermediaries in supporting commercially-orientated farmers in production of their livelihoods. It's also important to ensure that many of the poorer consumers that we know are visiting markets on a daily basis continue to have safe access to these products. Next slide please. The Dairy Narishes Africa initiative is a unique long-term public-private partnership which seeks a holistic transformation of the dairy industry throughout East Africa. However, dairy nutrition nourishes Africa is more than a singular private sector engagement. It is a movement that will crowd in a broad-based support for sectorial transformation. Dairy Narishes Africa provides sustainable front and centre, advancing climate smart, farm management and increasing enterprise efficiency using environmentally friendly solutions to reach out to consumers and effectively reducing dairy's footprint while simultaneously building a more resilient food system throughout a holistic effort to foster and support activities through the dairy ecosystem. Dairy Narishes Africa takes an enterprise-centric and government-aligned approach to growing consumer demand driving dairy enterprises to their full potential while increasing farm production and also creating a supportive and interconnected operating environment in which dairy industry can survive. Thank you. Next slide please. So 21% of sub-Saharan Africa population is undernourished but the provision of animal source foods are an important intervention and ensure the growth and development of both young children physically and cognitively. COVID-19 will exacerbate these challenges and the private and public sector must work together to find new solutions and sustainable ways to reach children and ensure that they're receiving nutrition-rich animal source foods especially during these challenging times. Milk is one of these ways. We look forward to discussing more about this in our sessions below but we feel that school milk-feeding programs are one of the solutions to this and a way of ensuring that young children have access to nutrantly dense products. Next slide and thank you very much. Thank you very much for this excellent presentation on the impact of COVID-19 on the food security. What we can take as a message here is that it's worthy to learn that an additional 130 million people will fall into food insecurity and more is the fall of 37% in the consumption of animal source food but the good news is that there are solutions and the right word as Laura mentioned is to what was building a more resilient food system that went here working on an integration of value chains looking at globalized food integration, support availability to food of quality food and quality input and this is a good policy that would mind, by my addition, food safety issues and more importantly, strengthen the partnership, the public-private partnership. Thank you very much today. The second speaker who gave us the impact of COVID-19 on livestock and livelihood is Elisabeth Tsai. Elisabeth is the founder of the A.K.M. greater company limited dealing with integrated poultry business managing three breeders farm, an archery and a feed mill. She's the member of the African agribusiness academy, African women in agribusiness and a member of the professional poultry association, feed mill, et cetera in Tanzania. Elisabeth, you have the floor. Good afternoon everybody. Thank you so much for having me. I will quickly go through my presentation but prior to that I would like to thank you the organizing committee of this important meeting. So straight away I would like to go to my presentation. I think in Tanzania the case is a bit different even though the fear was there. The effect of that fear was on everybody. So even though the government did not fully lock down but the population locked themselves down and that was a fear that I'm going to share with you the impact of that fear but as well as the indirect challenges that we are caused by a lot of challenges especially on our poultry sector and livestock sector. One of the big challenge that I'm looking at is the disruption of our food systems and as you all know that the food systems are being contributed by a small and medium-sized company who are also working with our smallholder farmers to at least allow those systems to function. Due to COVID-19 even the farmers, the smallholder farmers were afraid. For the case of Tanzania the COVID-19 hit the major cities like Dar eslam and there was a concern from the farmers that the people from Dar eslam should not be allowed to travel to the rural areas. My company works with rural farmers. We are working with more than 616 smallholder farmers and 420 franchises and this was a challenge because everything that we are producing from the dairy chicks, from the feeds, from the the extension services we had invested for the past many years came to a halt. Now due to that fear as you know poultry is one of the products from poultry are the major products that are used for nutrition and for even normal good protein that is recommended health-wise. Now that was purely disrupted but also the grains from the smallholder farmers and with the policies that was going on in Tanzania with the export of the grains also affected the production of chicks and also the rearing feeding of the poultry and other livestock. Now when you are looking at the financial and the financial impacts most of the banks were afraid and they were not able to give their decisions whether or not they should continue with investments and also issuing loans and because of the uncertainty of whether or whether the companies will be able to repay the loans that was another challenge. Now looking at the solutions for this as a company we immediately thought that digital agriculture should be the only way to communicate with the farmers and also to look at issues of financial support to the smallholder farmers and also we introduced something we call mobile extension services information sharing through social media and of course training and database development and also related programs like production programs we started as a company to invest on digital agriculture. At the moment we have already invested on call center and of course mobile mobile services and the use of 100 percent of social media. The other issue that we we've been engaged with the with the government seriously in is the issue of policy reviews and budgetary concerns. We've suggested to government a number of innovations and good practices on policy because we feel like the business environment even with COVID was not so supportive to companies. Now it was crucial that business environment should be looked at especially on taxes on financial loans, credit facilities, pharma finances and all those so those were the major major major challenges they still are a challenge. So let's go to the second slide please. I tried to give some statistics from from my company just for others to learn exactly what we went through through COVID-19. Cells dropped we were we were selling at least USD 160,000 a month and for the first month of COVID the sales dropped to USD 25,000 a month. We tried to go to a bank and we we accessed about USD 100,000 at 24 percent interest and that was the high interest during COVID. So that that left the company with a with a with a very big burden. Employment we had 120 staff out of 120 staff we had about 46 veterinary doctors who were working with small order farmers. We had to drop that number to 64 and invested in digital communication and mobile veterinary service. That was another another way of mitigating the the drop of extension services to reach out to the rural farmers. We had a 420 franchises. The franchises dropped up to 188 so we we had to invest in reviving the rural based franchises. These franchises are the franchises that kept the chickens for four weeks. The chicks were vaccinated. They received all the the first treatment before they reached to other small order farmers and each franchise was was supposed to reach at least 500 households. So once the franchises were affected that means the the the small order farmers effect were affected too. So we had about 614,000. We ended up with 5,000 small order farmers. Now we are working on reviving customer base and the price for one chick there during January and February we tried to lower the price and we could not we could not sell at all. So we had to give away all the production of chicks and the the chicks that we were giving away a month was about 256,000 chicks. But we did not even we did not even know how we could monitor at small order farmers that to date we don't have the data for mortalities and we don't have the data for vaccine vaccination programs whether the farmers were able to vaccinate and in February we decided to not hatch the chicks. We decided because our our our parent stock farms they were new parent stock farms with almost 30,000 parents. So in February we had to give away eggs which are very expensive. We had to feed the the parent stocks. We had to give away eggs to the to the COVID centers in Tanzania. So as you can see we went into complete loss at the same time we were we were having a burden on feeding the parent stock at least to revive those parents. But even though we lost a good amount of our parent stock in one of our farms so we had a new investment that was going on. It was a new animal feed meal construction. So the expatriates from China were locked down in China. So to date this project was supposed to be done in four months but this project took a year before we we finalized the construction but to date the the the the plant has not been commissioned to us and we had a foreign expert who was on training on a nutrition, poultry nutrition in Nairobi and he had to fly back to Cameroon for for leave and he was held in Cameroon for more than four months. That means all the salaries and all the cost of his employment was on aching glitters at the end of a march or mid-march he decided to resign just because he did not want to put the company into more losses. Can we go to another slide? Yeah okay. We we we also are facing to date we have paid for new parent stock from India but to date we've not been able to bring in parent stock because of lockdowns and flights cancellations even after the opening of the lockdowns. So as you can see other poultry companies in Tanzania they did not even have parent stock so chic scarcity was a problem. During COVID it was almost 40% an importation of parent stock to date. I have paid about $91,000 to import parent stocks but to date I'm told the the plane has been delayed for 14 hours. As I'm speaking I'm I'm in fear that probably the parent stock would not be able to come to Tanzania. When you're looking at policy issues aching glitters has been requested by the government to invest on grandparent stock and which we we we don't know how to do this because we we why they they suggested that we should at least invest on grandparent stock it's because during COVID or whether COVID will come again or in the future we should not be facing the challenges we are facing now but as you can you can see having a grandparent parent investment on grandparent is it's a lot of it's a lot of investment it needs research it needs a lot of research and product development it needs partners into this and that is a is a challenge for the for the growing company. When you're talking about financial sorry we need to finish up. Yeah um like as you can see there's a lot of challenges now these two templates of course covers everything that comes in in other tax the other other challenges because all of them are summed up in this whatever so taxes are still the same salaries are still the same cost nothing donor donor funds were delayed can we go to another template please that was in those templates control of you know everything that you see is in the in the in the summing up of the second and first yeah let's go another another another slide yeah so when you are talking about salaries this salary cost remains the same so aching glitters came up with contingency plan we had to invest on call center which is working very well with us we are communicating with farmers we are training the farmers and we are also using social media to train the farmers to communicate with the farmers and we are trying now to revive revive the the rule of based the customers and also we have invested in a mobile vehicle like a mobile vehicle with a few staff controlled ones with all gadgets to reach the farmers so that the farmers are protected and our our staff are protected and we are we are now establishing an IT for platform I think to start to work in in October this will allow us to train the farmers through the platform and the farmers will be receiving the you know trainings materials through their funds next slide please next slide please please finish it up sorry yeah well as you can see everything that I've been talking about our now our last slide our solutions I've already spoken about us thank you so much for listening thank you so much it is a bit for this presentation I think I said take away message we we can't not that the COVID-19 has impacted on the productive capacity of the farmers and the the business people in livestock this has impacted also on your income it has impacted on the job we have lost a lot of job due to this and a solution you are proposing more investment in digital agriculture you are proposing the financial stimulus packages as well as policy review in order to strengthen the resilience of the livelihood of livestock keepers or the livestock business people thank you very much uh Elizabeth I want you so much thank you very much for the presentation on the impact on COVID-19 on animal health and welfare we will have two speakers the first speaker is Dr. Jean-Fliid Dope who is the deputy director general at the world organization for animal health commanding us OIE is in charge of international institutional affairs and regional activities before joining the OIE he worked with the ministry first minister of agriculture agri-food and forestry after this presentation we will have a short input that will give an African perspective and this will be done by Dr. Samoa Wakusama who is the regional representative of OIE for eastern and the home of Africa so Dr. Dope you have the floor and Samoa will immediately take it after you over you thank you mr. Nohalla good afternoon good morning everyone and thank you for the opportunity to provide inputs I will try by reminding what are zoonotic threats and emerging diseases in fact we we we already knew before COVID-19 that 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases of humans are zoonotic so this is not an exception this virus is a zoonotic virus and we know that these zoonotic threats are are facilitated by globalization movements of good and people permanent changes regarding climate human behavior deforestation urbanization so there are many opportunities for pathogens to colonize new territories and a huge interdependence of countries for their own protection and is a reason why we like at the OIE but also with our colleagues of WHO or FAO we like to work to speak of one board and one health because all is related all is connected connected between animal health human health and environment health next slide please so this slide illustrates the zoonotic origin of coronaviruses COVID-19 is not the first one we already knew SARS coronavirus medialist respiratory syndrome coronavirus and we know that these viruses circulate in animals most of the time in bats that could be also in camels in in this particular case of COVID-19 there is an hypothesis of spillover between different species which has to be still investigated and some expert missions are going on in particular in china to have a better knowledge of of that next slide please so we had a great demonstration with the last speakers of the huge impact of this this pandemic here you have some some figures of the last events for sure Ebola was already concerned Africa was already concerned by Ebola there is an estimation here that the impact could be more than 10 billion dollars but when it comes to COVID-19 we reach figures that we never knew before Elizabeth Christopher I think described very well as well as David Harvey the huge impact it has on the activity on the food chain on private companies the need to all reorganize and according to calculations by UN and others we estimate that the COVID-19 pandemic could cost more than 15 trillion dollars this is this is tremendous and we have to to invest in order to avoid so huge impact we have to invest in predicting this phenomenon investing in prevention and investing in controlling these events next slide please so these are some examples of the work we developed at the OIE we had already a wildlife working group which issues some statement to remind the importance of of regulation of wildlife trade we set up some other groups which issued some guidance for veterinary laboratory to support human health testing and I know that for example the Panvaq laboratory in Ethiopia used these guidance and provided some important support to test COVID-19 and also in many other countries we also issued considerations for sampling animals and I will show you some results of these samples and we we try to explain how to manage COVID-19 risk assessment and in order in order to avoid international trade disruption disruption and we issued an important paper regarding that next slide so here is the example of the statement that our working group issued for wildlife many considerations are still to be considered we will work on on a guidance document to to see how to better regulate this trade in particular the trade of live animals within the wet markets so we are not against this this trade which is very important for many communities in Africa but we know that it has to be better regulated risk have to be better assessed hygiene inspection have to be improved and we will continue to work on on that next slide please so yes we know that this emerging diseases from animal sources can have severe economic and health impacts which we can go fast on this disease disease spread between wildlife livestock and humans occur through complex transmission we call this the spillover and we have still to investigate on it next the risk of disease emergence has increased as a result of opportunities globalization deforestation and so on next and this is exacerbated by human activities so livestock production intensified livestock production could be challenged but in that case we know that the issue is more wildlife regulation than livestock regulation next slide please we also learned from some african project in particular from the Ebo-sur-Sea project we have in in central africa it is a project funded by european union and which had the good results in terms of surveillance of ebola viruses hemorrhagic fevers in terms of collaboration between human health and animal health and with improving the capacity of the laboratories of the region to detect ebola we also improved their capacity to detect COVID-19 and it was really nice to see how these labs which benefited from the Ebo-sur-Sea project are today able to test COVID-19 next slide please so here are some results of our the testing campaigns of the country of our members regarding animals we could fear that the virus could disseminate in many animals and not only wildlife but also breeding animals and and you see that in fact we had no extension of this diffusion we had some cases in cats and dogs in tiger neon morph felines the PUMA was recently identified in South Africa and the only let's say breeding animals which were identified in farms were mixed in in the Netherlands and this event is still under investigation to know if we face a human to minks contamination or on the other sense it could be possible for minks to contaminate humans but we have still to assess the risk next slide here is an important communication from UC Davis University showing that the level of susceptibility could be different in different species but according to the presence of some receptors which are able to to receive the virus researchers determine the level of risk of susceptibility and you see finally that the breeding animals and livestock are not the first concern but we could face some concern for a non-human mammals next slide please Jean Philippe please to finish up as well yes so this leads to a principle of action we must control the nautical pathogens of the animal source and we must embrace the one health approach onboarding all together human health and animal health and environment health next next please so these are crucial cornerstones our objective within OIE is to develop standards to improve the capacity of countries to deliver capacity of surveillance control and prevention we have also at WHO the importance of the international health regulation and together we try to develop the national capacities for early detection and rapid response investing in our animal health and human health sectors is really an important cornerstone next slide so which lessons for the future there is a need for strengthening the one health approach because the health of animals humans and environment are inextricably linked we show that disease pillovers events can have huge consequences and this risk is increasing and cannot be ignored there is a need for collective action and international cooperation because this is no no borders so cooperation doesn't need to face borders and the drivers of disease emergence are broad and no one organization knows OIE alone WHO alone or FAO alone no UNEP alone can have an impact across all of them and there is a need of strong political awareness and commitment and I was very happy to see ministers today ministers from Kenya and Nigeria to be there to sustain investments and capacity buildings of national and regional health systems to sustain research and scientific knowledge and to support multilateral dialogue and engagement in global and regional organizations and thank you to to Gazel and Ilyri to to promote that and perhaps now a few words from my colleague Bayzi Nerobi to give you how we deal with that in the African context thank you yeah thank you participants uh Yondop has said most of the the things but at least from the African perspective it's very important to invest in capacity building especially for the one health approach some of the labs like the one he mentioned Ethiopia the national animal health diagnostic center has been able to actually achieve this through the training program that we have had with the OIE with them and it will be nice for the most of the African institutions to actually participate in site programs to be able to provide the capacities both human and human capacities and physical capacity with regard to collective and international cooperation I'm glad to see the African Union and the Africa CDC actually conducting sessions to actually create awareness and I think they they are playing a very major leading role to connect the political to mobilize and mobilize resources and the political will for technical support funding for the member countries it is important that the political will is there for the long-standing and sustainable one health collaboration into the government structure because most of the time this one health approach is not really very well anchored in the ministries but from the African perspective it will be very good if we had a very well sustained structure and long-standing such that the countries such that such events when they come up it's easier to approach and tackle it from one angle thank you thank you very much Samar thank you very much Jean-Philippe for your presentation that refresh our mind on the origin of the virus and the level of its susceptibility and the risk thank you for the information on the global loss that's the COVID-19 could lead to that is about over 15 trillion US dollars and for the submission that we are proposing and about monetary surveillance and control we need this need to be strengthened and this needs to be done around the one health approach and for this to happen we might politically so we need to create more political awareness and get commitment from our policymakers and more importantly and again this has been said by previous speakers we need to strengthen collaboration partnership and international cooperation our last speaker will share with us the impact of the pandemic on climate change and natural resource use the speaker is Sonja Lagna she's a social scientist ecologist and biologist working with the international livestock research institute so you have the floor thank you very much same please can you please confirm if you can hear me well okay excellent thank you very much i will give the last framing presentation for today and i will speak about the impact of the livestock sector the pandemic on climate change and natural resource use in sub-saharan africa so we have just heard a little bit about animal health and you all know that livestock is also playing a role in in disease transmission so there's also a lot of focus now during this COVID-19 pandemic on livestock and we also know that there is a lot of interaction between livestock and wildlife but there are a lot of other adverse effects of livestock on the environment and they can have secondary effects on disease development and spreading so i would like to talk about them a little bit now so of course probably one of the biggest ones that we have to address here is the impact of livestock to climate change we all know that livestock is an emitter of greenhouse gas emissions approximately 50 15 percent of global greenhouse gases originate from livestock if you follow life cycle assessment approaches and the main sources of these greenhouse gas emissions are enteric fermentation that is the ruminant digestion that produces methane animal manure and deforestation and land degradation and then there's also a little bit of transport and processing but this usually doesn't have a big contribution in sub-saharan africa we do however know that livestock greenhouse gas emissions can dominate national greenhouse gas budgets in many sub-saharan african countries of course there's also an effect of climate change on livestock and this figure shows all the different effects that climate change via increase of temperature and precipitation variation for example can have on livestock and to pick out just a few we have heat droughts floods that can occur more frequently and become more severe change in vegetation which can affect the nutritional quality of the vegetation for the livestock and also higher disease pressure because we know that certain vectors can invade new territories and new diseases can start spreading and of course there are also a lot of feedback loops between all these points for example weak animals that are already stressed by heat and drought or lack of fodder can become more susceptible to diseases and we also know that animal disease can suppress productivity and then more animals are required which produce more greenhouse gas emissions which can accelerate climate change so climate change livestock and disease is inextricably linked then of course there is another topic which is land degradation causes for land degradation are among others deforestation and land conversion some of which happens to reduce new pastures for livestock crop farming and extractable agriculture and livestock grazing especially in combination with high animal numbers and this is from a study that we're currently conducting in western Kenya this map shows the areas of Kenya that are under hazard for land degradation and everything that's read is under a severe or very severe hazard so you can see that this is really a big topic in Kenya and it's also a topic in many other east african countries and if you look at the picture on the bottom right this is a photo taken from western Kenya and it shows how a degraded land cannot function properly anymore because you have loss of vegetation cover so of course this land cannot provide feed food and fiber anymore but it also loses its regulation capacity capacity to regulate pests and control diseases or to stabilize soil and control erosion and capacity for water filtration and nutrient cycling and we've just heard in the previous presentation that we really need a one health approach here that takes into account human health animal health and environmental health or if I talk to my students I like to put this in simpler words which is healthy soils are required to grow healthy plants which can lead to healthy animals and in the end healthy humans finally there's livestock and nutrient cycling and I would like to give you one example from Kenya that we're working on here many of you might know this picture this these are some photos of animal enclosures in Kenya we call them bomas they're also referred to as corals or corals and they're very common in pastoral systems to guard the animals overnight to protect them from predators and from thieves but this has consequences for nutrient cycling meaning that it can lead to a nutrient redistribution across the landscape inside the bomas there is a high concentration of nutrients such as nitrogen due to manure accumulation which can lead to a lot of adverse environmental consequences for example 10 percent of nitrous oxide emissions in Africa originate from bomas and bomas are also sources for pollutants that can have adverse health effects such as air and groundwater pollutants on the other hand this nitrogen that is concentrated in the bomas is then lacking somewhere else and it can lead to low for its quality if the pasture soils are depleted in nitrogen and over the long term this soil nutrient mining can lead to loss of soil organic matter resulting in additional greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion and this is an example for a grassland but you can have a similar situation in mixed crop livestock systems as well especially if bomas do not use an advertiser or do not recycle manure then you have continuous nutrient mining from the crop fields which can lead to soil degradation and in the long term this becomes unsustainable especially with increasing animal numbers and limited land availability due to land fragmentation this means that agro ecosystems become destabilized in the long run and they're more susceptible to disturbance for example pandemics but also locust outbreak as we have just witnessed or extreme climatic events and therefore we really need a circular economy and the holistic approach because the more the better the systems work and the more we can avoid leakages the more efficient these systems will run which also means that there is less land required and that's a lower probability of pandemics when livestock don't come in touch with with wildlife and there are many few extra data for Africa as regarding environmental pollution and now I would like to give you some examples on what we do looking at the environmental effects of COVID-19 one study that we're currently conducting is looking at the impact of the lockdown on livestock greenhouse gas emissions from pastoralist systems in Samburu northern Kenya we know that the lockdown has reduced the movement of herders with their animals and we're now looking whether it also has an effect on herd size animal numbers and feed availability and we have developed different scenario combinations and are working with survey data of key stakeholders to look at the impact of this lockdown on absolute greenhouse gas emissions as well as emission intensities which are the emissions per unit of product and there is also a poster for this study so if you want to learn more about it you can have a look at the share fair later on and then secondly we have we're looking at the medium term impact of the pandemic of on greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and manure in Uganda Kenya and Ethiopia we have a project going on which is called program for climate smart livestock and one of the things that we're working on are emissions from animals and manure directly and we work with animal activity data and surveys and this project started in the end of 2018 and it is still continuing so we have been lucky to send some people back to the field to collect more data and COVID-19 of course was not planned but it is a natural experiment so we will certainly also see an effect on the greenhouse gas emissions here and with this I'm coming to the end of my presentation some closing remarks we know that COVID-19 will impact on the relationship of livestock with climate and natural resources but we still know very little about how what these impacts will look like and we have some studies underway giving us information on impacts on greenhouse gas emissions but there are certainly more areas that need more research and I might be preaching to the choir here but this is a little cartoon to put things a little bit into perspective of course it is very critical that we address COVID-19 to alleviate the immediate threat to people and also cope with the mid and long-term effects but of course we cannot forget about the threat of climate change and I like to quote Markerden Rosenblum here who say that unlike the pandemic climate change threatens the very basis for continued human prosperity and requires an equal if not greater societal mobilization and of course it's our duty to find ways how to make livestock more sustainable and how to really include the environment in the one health approach thank you very much for your attention thank you very much Sonia for this very detailed presentation on the impact of livestock to climate change the effect of climate change on livestock the relationship with land degradation and nutrient recycling and as you clearly put it as why we know the effects of climate change on livestock before the pandemic it is too early to say it what would be the the the effects post COVID-19 and this require that as a group as a multistakeholder partners we start thinking of how do we assess this various effects post COVID-19 because this will be crucial to formulate necessary policies and actions that would mitigate this effect ladies and gentlemen we are the end of our presentations unfortunately we do not have time for questions and answers please but you have sent questions on the chat yes assistant and collector the questions this will be given to the presenters and the answers will be shared with you during this meeting so please you can continue to send your questions and these questions will be shared with the presenters and the answers will be sent back to you so with this I would like you to guide me in thanking all our five presenters for this magnificent work and I want to end here and hand over the floor to Cynthia. Cynthia? It's to me to say hi thank you can you hear me please confirm yes okay thank you so much please let me take this opportunity to thank all the presenters for their very interesting presentation it's actually framed down the group discussion we'll have now so shortly we'll be in different working groups to discuss the impact of the pandemic on the livestock sector in Africa this is the moment for us to reflect and share our experience and what we feel around this issue so we'll do this group by specific or global gazelle domains which is about food and nutrition security livelihoods and income growth animal and welfare climate and natural resource use and there each specific domain will have three different questions address which are which positive or negative impacts of the pandemic are most significant for the livestock sector in Africa how are we observing or measuring this impact what are the three hidden or overlooked opportunities the pandemic offered to the livestock sector okay welcome back everyone I hope you enjoyed your group discussions so it's time also to quickly get your reflection so as we have been introducing a lot the chat function this is time for us to use it we have two questions for you let me go to the first one and then you give me your response so the instruction here is I read you the question you just give your instant response in your chat box but you don't press it until I come and say go so please the question is already projected on the screen as you can see what is the most interesting or key message about the pandemic and livestock in Africa that you take from this session the discussion from the discussion you had this is a question please do your instant response with 30 seconds and I will tell you go and you press enter so we see your response in the chat box are we ready one two three go enter your message please oh it's coming like a storm do you want me to help you so I'm seeing some high points the positives and the negatives the mix of opportunities so people have been focusing on the challenges but there's also some big positives in here we're seeing one health approach coming up one health one health that's popping up in many many times yeah yeah it's a key message I assume that's a positive and not a negative the new opportunities realization we're seeing the gender elements are coming up we don't know the details of that loss of revenue the unity of purpose so that's quite a mix what we're seeing here is quite a lot of positives digitalization again supply of livestock and I don't know whether that means more supply of less supply the resilience business opportunities animal feed security are very broad range of things here but there's a mix of negatives and positives but a lot of positives a lot of positives so maybe that's a good a good word to finish this okay thank you Peter can we move to the next slide please and then we'll handle the second but thank you so much Peter stay with me for the second one let's move this is the second question would you follow the same format so what critical issue did you not hear about the pandemic and livestock in Africa I give a 30 second here again and then when I say go you press enter hold it now one two three go we didn't hear about politics we didn't hear about market closures we didn't hear enough about academic economic impact climate change unpreparedness gender desegregation we didn't hear enough about gender Mary thank you yeah lots of jobs the pastoralism dimensions okay politics we didn't hear much about politics welfare gender politics transparency so again a very broad range of things we did not hear enough about or even about at all yeah food safety didn't hear about that there's a lot of points okay so let's stop it here then Michael Peter I think so that's good thank you so much Peter and all the participants still you can continue chatting about your response but now let me hand over to my colleague Mire to take us through the next session where is the communication manager at the livestock and program in Ilri so Mire over to you hi everyone thank you so hi hi everyone you would have seen me on the chat and my dogs are making a lot of noise just a second okay um thank so we just wanted to introduce the virtual chef very if you had obviously as you had registered in um um to us to attend this meeting you would have received an email inviting your inviting you to submit your submissions to you know on on what you what innovation solutions you have been producing in your own work to help build back better from the COVID-19 pandemic so we thank everyone for the submissions we got 18 which is a mix of posters and videos and they were all under the theme of either in any of the themes of animal health and animal welfare climate and resource use food nutrition security livelihoods and economic growth Michael did you want to share the screen so they show us um what we have so far um we we hope that this will inspire you to take a look at what we have so far um which is a great selection from different partners different people are doing great work on how um on solutions to basically do better um and build back better from COVID-19 I also want to let you know that um livestock data for decisions who is participating in um in the meetings they're going to be compiling the solutions into an interactive dashboard of initiatives and tools to aid coordinated responses to COVID-19 the livestock center they're going to share that with us in the same way that we'll be sharing information with you the slides and the Q&A's so look out for those okay so this is going to stay up for a while so we encourage you to submit your initiatives to the share fair um we'd love to see your work featured because this is really part of this um of us working together to compile solutions because um I don't think anyone country can do this alone and as we as as um Dr. Doc had said earlier that you know there are no borders uh COVID-19 knows no borders so we have to do this together so um please do visit the virtual share fair I'm going to share the link right now in the chat I'm going to just to add on so do you want to just explain what we have in each like kind of in uh in the in the booth for each of the posters sure um so as you see this with this one example that we have from Kuku Nyumbani we have an example of the the work that they're doing and the kind of the extension and network that they've produced to to try to support um suppliers and the supply chain so you'll have the poster there you have a description of what the poster is about you have any useful links that relate to the poster and there was a comment section so if you want to ask questions reach out to to the authors this is where you have a chance to to actually do that okay so I think that's it I don't want to keep anyone any longer everyone's been great thank you so much thank you everyone we have come to the end of our first session thank you to all the country people who contributed to the different activities then we had the introductions we also had the framing uh pandemic presentations around the four domains we further reflected on all these in the groups and Mirail has invited and reminded us that we now have a share thing it's time to take a break but during that break please visit this wonderful work that has been presented in the share fair and let's all be ready again to meet at 5 30 p.m. East Africa time for the beginning of the next session so please stay tuned in visit the share fair take a short coffee tea break and let's meet again