Livestock's long shadow : environmental issues and options /
by Steinfeld, Henning; 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).
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BookPublisher: Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006Description: xxiv, 390 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9789251055717; 9251055718.Subject(s): Livestock | Animal industry | Biodiversity | Environmental degradationDDC classification: 338 FOO 2006 A079 Or. Online resources: Click here to access online 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.
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"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.
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.
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