Research Catalog

Title

Livestock's long shadow : environmental issues and options / Henning Steinfeld, Pierre Gerber, Tom Wassenaar, Vincent Castel, Mauricio Rosales, Cees de Haan.

Author

Steinfeld, Henning

Publication

Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Gerber, Pierre
• Wassenaar, T. D.
• Castel, Vincent.
• Rosales M., Mauricio
• Haan, Cees de.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Livestock, Environment and Development (Firm)

Description

xxiv, 390 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 25 cm.

Summary

This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment takes into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feed crop agriculture required for livestock production. The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost.

Subjects

• Environmental degradation
• Biodiversity
• Animal industry > Environmental aspects
• Livestock > Ecology

Note

• "The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref.
• "TC/M/A0701E/1/11.06/5000"--P. [4] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Livestock in geographic transition -- Livestock's role in climate change and air pollution -- Livestock's role in water depletion and pollution -- Livestock's impact on biodiversity -- Policy challenges and options -- Summary and conclusions.

ISBN

• 9789251055717
• 9251055718
• 9251055718
• 9789251055717

OCLC

• 77563364
• SCSB-10897900

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library