Recognizing animal protein’s critical role ahead of UN Climate Summit Agriculture Day
The Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture convened its first-ever 'Sustainable Agriculture in the Americas' pavilion at the UN Climate Summit (COP27).
The Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) convened its first-ever 'Sustainable Agriculture in the Americas' pavilion at the UN Climate Summit (COP27) and partnered with the Protein PACT and other stakeholders to convene a total of nine events focused on animal agriculture’s key role in sustainability solutions.
The Protein PACT events included a November 9 panel on sustainable livestock across regions and production systems (see IICA press release here), National Pork Board Assistant Vice President Ashley McDonald shared U.S. pork’s commitments to ethical principles, best practices, and documenting proof. The Pork Board and Pork Checkoff pioneered on-farm sustainability reports, which have been awarded $20 million in USDA Climate-Smart Commodities grant funding to expand measurement and implementation of climate-smart practices.