Livestock, land and the environmental limits of animal source-food consumption

The increase in global consumption of animal source food (ASF) (by more than 40kg/person/year in the last 25 years) has driven livestock production systems in many countries towards intensification. This has significant consequences for land use. Identifying how best to navigate the trade-offs of us...

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Autores principales: Herrero, Mario, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Godde, Cécile M., Palmer, Jeda, Thornton, Philip K., Gill, Margaret
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98842
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author Herrero, Mario
Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
Godde, Cécile M.
Palmer, Jeda
Thornton, Philip K.
Gill, Margaret
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Godde, Cécile M.
Herrero, Mario
Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
Palmer, Jeda
Thornton, Philip K.
author_facet Herrero, Mario
Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
Godde, Cécile M.
Palmer, Jeda
Thornton, Philip K.
Gill, Margaret
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description The increase in global consumption of animal source food (ASF) (by more than 40kg/person/year in the last 25 years) has driven livestock production systems in many countries towards intensification. This has significant consequences for land use. Identifying how best to navigate the trade-offs of using land for livestock production depends on understanding what is happening at a local level since there are large regional differences in trends for both supply and demand. Species and production system are also important determinants of land use, but it is the issue of providing sufficient feed for pigs and poultry and for dairy intensification that causes most concern. Producing traditional feeds (grains and soybean meal) competes with arable land used to produce human food. Thus research on increasing the efficient use of feed resources and on identifying new feed resources are both critical to achieve more sustainable livestock production systems, as is policy research on managing demand.
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spelling CGSpace988422025-11-04T20:07:05Z Livestock, land and the environmental limits of animal source-food consumption Herrero, Mario Mason-D'Croz, Daniel Godde, Cécile M. Palmer, Jeda Thornton, Philip K. Gill, Margaret animal products livestock food security The increase in global consumption of animal source food (ASF) (by more than 40kg/person/year in the last 25 years) has driven livestock production systems in many countries towards intensification. This has significant consequences for land use. Identifying how best to navigate the trade-offs of using land for livestock production depends on understanding what is happening at a local level since there are large regional differences in trends for both supply and demand. Species and production system are also important determinants of land use, but it is the issue of providing sufficient feed for pigs and poultry and for dairy intensification that causes most concern. Producing traditional feeds (grains and soybean meal) competes with arable land used to produce human food. Thus research on increasing the efficient use of feed resources and on identifying new feed resources are both critical to achieve more sustainable livestock production systems, as is policy research on managing demand. 2018-10-30 2018-12-20T07:01:53Z 2018-12-20T07:01:53Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98842 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council Herrero, M., Mason-D’Croz, D., Godde, C.M., Palmer, J., Thornton, P.K. and Gill, M. 2018. Livestock, land and the environmental limits of animal source-food consumption. Science Forum 2018 Background Papers. Rome, Italy: CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council.
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Herrero, Mario
Mason-D'Croz, Daniel
Godde, Cécile M.
Palmer, Jeda
Thornton, Philip K.
Gill, Margaret
Livestock, land and the environmental limits of animal source-food consumption
title Livestock, land and the environmental limits of animal source-food consumption
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title_short Livestock, land and the environmental limits of animal source-food consumption
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livestock
food security
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98842
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