LD4D Meetings
Our Community of Practice meets approximately every year to share their work and plan new collaborations. Here you can find information about upcoming and past meetings.
Rome, Italy (4-6 February 2020)
The next LD4D Community of Practice meeting will be hosted by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome. Online participation will be open to all community members. In-person participation will be invite-only as numbers are limited. A draft agenda will be made available soon.
Hanoi, Vietnam (28-30 November 2018)
The CoP met in Hanoi, Vietnam to take stock on progress to date, debate big questions in the livestock data sphere, and discuss the community’s collective role in addressing these.
- Meeting summary (with video and downloads): Livestock data community zeroes in on big challenges
- Full meeting agenda
Naivasha, Kenya (February 2018)
The CoP met in Naivasha, Kenya to share progress on key initiatives and discuss new working groups.
- Meeting summary: Latest LD4D meeting strengthens collaboration for improved livestock data
- Download the full meeting report (PDF) [REINSERT LINK to PDF in ERA]
Edinburgh, UK (June 2017)
This meeting was designed around the needs of the community and focused on ensuring that LD4D outputs brought benefits to each member. A lively 2.5 day meeting resulted in a clear list of tasks for LD4D and a refocusing of the community away from the creation of a LD4D database toward a data portal and knowledge platform.
June CoP meeting final report (PDF)
Rome, Italy (January 2017)
Analysis of existing CoPs: Following the LD4D Convening in Rome in Jan 2017, the SEBI team did some horizon scanning of existing Communities of Practice (CoPs) in the global livestock sector and developed a simple inventory of these