This article is a synthesis of session 3 of the FAO Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation held in Rome in September 2023. The aim was to engage in a dialogue on innovations and pathways to efficiently produce more nutritious, safe and accessible animal-derived food with a reduced environmental footprint, and to foster dynamic and diversified local livestock systems more resilient to economic shocks and climate-related disruptions. This article is a translation of the conference session, which focused particularly on meat and the theme of “better nutrition”. Topics covered included: “Animal source food for human nutrition and health”; “World Health Organisation guidelines and consumption of animal source food”; “The drivers of supply and demand for terrestrial animal source foods”; “ensuring the safety of animal source foods”; and “cell-based food: promises and reality”.
