Biodiversity and the livestock sector - Guidelines for quantitative assessment

The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on biodiversity, hereafter called Biodiversity TAG, is composed of 25 international experts in ecology, biodiversity indicators, agronomy, life cycle assessment, livestock production systems, and environmental science. Their backgrounds, complementary between syste...

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Main Author:	FAO
Format:	Libro
Language:	Inglés
Published:	2022
Subjects:	GANADO BIODIVERSIDAD CONTAMINACIÓN EFECTO INVERNADERO SINERGISMO OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE RESTAURACIÓN ECOSISTEMAS Sede Central
Online Access:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/11715

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spelling	RepoCATIE117152022-04-01T18:52:30Z Biodiversity and the livestock sector - Guidelines for quantitative assessment FAO GANADO BIODIVERSIDAD CONTAMINACIÓN EFECTO INVERNADERO SINERGISMO OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE RESTAURACIÓN ECOSISTEMAS Sede Central The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on biodiversity, hereafter called Biodiversity TAG, is composed of 25 international experts in ecology, biodiversity indicators, agronomy, life cycle assessment, livestock production systems, and environmental science. Their backgrounds, complementary between systems and regions, allowed them to understand and address different perspectives. The aim of the methodology developed in these guidelines is to introduce a harmonized international approach for assessing the impacts of livestock on biodiversity. The livestock sector is a major user of natural resources (land in particular) and an important contributor to pollution (e.g. causing nutrient losses, increasing greenhouse gas emissions), which makes it one of the sectors with the highest impact on biodiversity. At the same time, livestock production is one of the few sectors with not only negative but also positive impacts on biodiversity; therefore, the sector can pull two levers to improve its biodiversity performance – mitigate harm and maximize benefits. Many environmental assessments of the livestock sector have not addressed biodiversity because of its intrinsic complexity. These guidelines strive to include biodiversity in environmental assessments, in order to increase the understanding of the impacts of livestock on biodiversity and to reveal possible synergies or trade-offs with other environmental criteria or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Several indicators in these guidelines are also of relevance for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. 2022-03-31T21:26:30Z 2022-03-31T21:26:30Z 2020 Libro https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/11715 openAccess en https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9295en 114 páginas application/pdf
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topic	GANADO BIODIVERSIDAD CONTAMINACIÓN EFECTO INVERNADERO SINERGISMO OBJETIVOS DE DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE RESTAURACIÓN ECOSISTEMAS Sede Central
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description	The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on biodiversity, hereafter called Biodiversity TAG, is composed of 25 international experts in ecology, biodiversity indicators, agronomy, life cycle assessment, livestock production systems, and environmental science. Their backgrounds, complementary between systems and regions, allowed them to understand and address different perspectives. The aim of the methodology developed in these guidelines is to introduce a harmonized international approach for assessing the impacts of livestock on biodiversity. The livestock sector is a major user of natural resources (land in particular) and an important contributor to pollution (e.g. causing nutrient losses, increasing greenhouse gas emissions), which makes it one of the sectors with the highest impact on biodiversity. At the same time, livestock production is one of the few sectors with not only negative but also positive impacts on biodiversity; therefore, the sector can pull two levers to improve its biodiversity performance – mitigate harm and maximize benefits. Many environmental assessments of the livestock sector have not addressed biodiversity because of its intrinsic complexity. These guidelines strive to include biodiversity in environmental assessments, in order to increase the understanding of the impacts of livestock on biodiversity and to reveal possible synergies or trade-offs with other environmental criteria or Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Several indicators in these guidelines are also of relevance for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
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title	Biodiversity and the livestock sector - Guidelines for quantitative assessment
title_short	Biodiversity and the livestock sector - Guidelines for quantitative assessment
title_full	Biodiversity and the livestock sector - Guidelines for quantitative assessment
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Biodiversity and the livestock sector - Guidelines for quantitative assessment

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