Increasing world consumption of beef as a driver of regional and global change: A call for policy action based on evidence from Queensland (Australia), Colombia and Brazil

By Clive McAlpine, A. Etter, Philip Martin Fearnside, Leonie Seabrook, W. Laurance. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment? (2014, background): “The FAO’s seminal Long Shadow report (FAO, 2006) and numerous LCA-inspired scientific and NGO publications have highlighted the heavy burden that livestock place on land, water, biodiversity e and their contribution to GHG emissions (Pelletier and Tyedmers, 2010; EC, 2006; Weber and Matthews, 2008; ”
Spatiotemporal Evaluation of The Human Footprint in Colombia: Four Decades of Anthropic Impact in Highly Biodiverse Ecosystems (2020, background): “Mainly, from 1990 to 2000 in cattle ranching had a dramatic expansion and some areas experience land abandonment (some underwent natural regeneration) due to the internal conflict (McAlpine et al. 2009).”
Persistence of cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial analysis of the rationale for beef production (2012, background): “The Brazilian herd grew from 147 million head of cattle in 1990 to 200 million in 2007 to become the world’s largest commercial cattle herd (McAlpine et al., 2009).”
Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents (2017, unknown): “Uncleared savannas are dominated by three land uses: conservation, commercial and communal grazing land (predominately cattle grazing) (McAlpine et al., 2009).”
Climate change and the growth of the livestock sector in developing countries (2010, background): “Agriculture and livestock (beef production in particular) are nevertheless poised to play a greater role in post-2012 climate agreements (UNFCCC 2008), and indeed wide-ranging policy action will certainly be needed ( McAlpine et al. 2009 ).”
Food and feed trade as a driver in the global nitrogen cycle: 50-year trends (2014, background): “In addition to the problems related to the perturbation of N cycle, the exporting countries suffer other environmental burdens of intensive and specialized agricultural production, such as air and water pollution, loss of soil fertility and erosion, GHG emission, water and land grabbing, loss of bio”
Livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions: impacts and options for policy makers (2009, background): “It has been estimated that the annual net emissions from Brazilian Amazonian deforestation, based on the average deforestation rate of 19,400 km2 per year for the 2007 period, was approximately 191 million tonnes of CO2-equivalent carbon, or 700 million tonnes CO2e (McAlpine et al., 2009).”
Oil palm plantations in Colombia: a model of future expansion (2013, background): “The most extensive land use is cattle grazing which spans over more than 70% of the agricultural land, usually exhibiting low productivity levels (McAlpine et al., 2009).”
Relationship between openness to trade and deforestation: : Empirical evidence from the Brazilian Amazon (2016, background): “Nowadays, Brazil is one of the largest exporters of soybeans and the world's largest exporter of beef: one third of all beef exports are from the Amazon (McAlpine et al., 2009).”
The environmental sustainability of insects as food and feed. A review (2017, background): “This can be achieved by substituting animal protein with vegetable protein and making a transition from ruminants (e.g., cattle and sheep) (McAlpine et al. 2009; Tilman and Clark 2014; Bryngelsson et al. 2016) to lower impact species (e.g., pigs and poultry) (Steinfeld and Gerber 2010).”