Highlights: The livestock sector's environmental impacts are summarised and contextualised against planetary boundaries. Impacts are examined in three domains; climate change, biogeochemical flows...
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Nitrogen (N) plays a dual role in the agri-food system: it is an essential nutrient for all life forms, yet also an environmental pollutant causing a range of environmental...
Kyrgyzstan is a livestock country. A large part of the country’s land area serves as pasture for its 1.7 million cattle and 6.3 million sheep and goats.
Pastoral and...
In this paper we revisit the current debate between red meat vs. alternative protein and explore the respective contribution that those two polarized discourses claim to make...
Foodborne disease poses several major threats toward attaining sustainable improvements in food and nutrition security (FNS), on a global scale. These threats have numerous...
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Animal source foods are necessary and missing in the diets of nearly 800 million individuals.
ASF are the best source of high-quality nutrient-rich food...
Despite the evidence concerning the substantial greenhouse gases emissions resulting from animal-based food production, climate policies and institutions around the world have barely made an issue...
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Large-scale land-based mitigation (~600 Mha) in pathways in line with the Paris agreement could conflict with food security.
Mitigation in 2050 might change food...
This report analyses the true hidden health impacts and costs of industrial livestock systems through multiple and interconnected pathways of impact, including: 1. Unhealthy diets and food...
Livest ock contributes to the livelihoods of 1.7 billion smallholder farme rs in the Global South, and plays a crucial economic role for approximately 60% of rural households in developing...