Beyond milk, meat, and eggs: Role of livestock in food and nutrition security

By Jimmy W. Smith, K. Sones, D. Grace, S. Macmillan, S. Tarawali, Mario Herrero. 2013

328 citations recorded by the source corpus.

A widely used defi nition, dating back to the World Food Summit in 1996, is that food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to suffi cient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (see http://www.who.int/trade/glossary/story028/en/). Food security, as commonly used in development discourse, emphasizes food quantity more than food quality: the term “nutrition security” is used to capture the quality dimension. The contributions made to the diets of the world’s seven billion people by cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and a dozen or so lesser known but locally important species (such as guinea fowl, yaks, and camels) are complex and multidimensional. They include direct and indirect impacts, which can be either benefi cial or harmful to overall food supply and food and nutrition security. Amelia Ubisse with one of her goats and a fresh baget in a village near Marracuene, near Maputo, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). Beyond milk, meat, and eggs: Role of livestock in food and nutrition security

Subfields: Ecology, Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics

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In Ecology

1. Michael A. Clark
2. David Tilman
3. E. Röös
4. G. Carlsson
5. J. Spångberg
6. M. Patel
7. L. Rydhmer

In Food Science

1. David Tilman
2. E. Röös
3. M. Patel
4. Michael A. Clark

In Nutrition and Dietetics

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Citations in the corpus

• Limiting livestock production to pasture and by-products in a search for sustainable diets (2016, background): “…and breeding programmes that lead to less nitrous oxide emissions from soils in the case of plant production and less methane emissions from ruminants in the case of animal production, greenhouse gas emissions from soils and animals could be decreased (Martin et al., 2010; Snyder et al., 2014).”
• Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice (2017, background): “For example, grass-fed systems promote soil carbon sequestration (Derner and Schuman 2007) and within-pasture nutrient cycling while simultaneously decreasing eutrophication (Smith et al 2013).”
• Does Livestock Ownership Affect Animal Source Foods Consumption and Child Nutritional Status? Evidence from Rural Uganda (2014, background): “use of manure and traction, and reduced prices of livestock by-products (Smith et al., 2013; Kariuki et al., 2013).”
• LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics * (2015, neutral): “Livestock, especially ruminants, have the ability to convert low-quality biomass into high-quality nutrient-dense foods (Smith et al. 2013a) and currently contribute 15% of total food energy, 25% of dietary protein and some micronutrients not readily available from plants for human consumption (FAO…”