Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems

By Mario Herrero, Petr Havlík, Hugo Valin, A. Notenbaert, Mariana C. Rufino, P. K. Thornton, M. Blümmel, Franz Weiss, D. Grace, Michael Obersteiner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering

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Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics (2017, background): “…tropical wet-land emissions (Dlugokencky et al 2009), increased fossil fuel activities related to hydraulic fracking and natural gas exploitation (Jackson et al 2014, Rice et al 2016, Turner et al 2016), and possible changes in agriculture, in particular livestock production (Herrero et al 2013).”
How can the EU climate targets be met? A combined analysis of technological and demand-side changes in food and agriculture (2016, background): “Furthermore, the vast majority, about 90%, of the global ruminant production (in protein terms) occurs in ‘‘mixed” systems (Herrero et al., 2013), and hence is partly based on arable land— which of course does have a high opportunity cost for production of other food.”
The role of trade in the greenhouse gas footprints of EU diets (2018, background): “Therefore, the emission intensities of ruminant meat and milk are higher compared to those of meat and eggs from monogastrics (Herrero et al., 2013) and also in this study contribute to the largest share of dietary emissions.”
Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions (2014, background): “(29) provide the first systematic quantification of global livestock systems in terms of feed use, feed conversion efficiency, land productivity, and non-CO2 emission intensity.”
Global rangeland production systems and livelihoods at threat under climate change and variability (2020, methodology): “This assignment used in Boone et al (2018)’s G-range model parametrisation and evaluation excludes, for example, most regions of India, which are considered in other global classification work as mixed crop-livestock systems and not grazing only systems (Herrero et al 2013).”
It ain’t easy eating greens: Evidence of bias toward vegetarians and vegans from both source and target (2017, background): “, 2006) and environmental (Herrero et al., 2013) outcomes, and popular media coverage of animal cruelty on factory farms (Kennedy, 2012; Schecter, 2014).”