Livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions: impacts and options for policy makers

By T. Garnett. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering

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Greedy or needy? Land use and climate impacts of food in 2050 under different livestock futures (2017, background): “This avoids competition between food and feed (Garnett, 2009; Röös et al., 2015; Schader et al., 2015).”
Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems (2013, background): “Third, the questions concerning which livestock product, how much of it we eat, and how it is raised, matter a great deal in a changing, resource-use hungry world: the large differences in the efficiency of production of livestock products warrant considerable attention in the search to define susta”
Global food supply: land use efficiency of livestock systems (2016, background): “land with low opportunity costs for arable production (Garnett 2009; Eisler et al. 2014).”
Climate change mitigation through livestock system transitions (2014, background): “Changes in diets are considered to be an effective GHG mitigation option in developed countries (39, 40).”
Doubling food production to feed the 9 billion: a critical perspective on a key discourse of food security in the UK (2013, background): “Therefore, serious questions are being raised about a future further increase in farmed animals because of the likely increase in GHG emissions (Deckers, 2010; FAO, 2006a; McMichael et al., 2007; CarlssonKanyma and Gonzalez, 2009; Garnett, 2009).”
Energy Intensity of Agriculture and Food Systems (2011, background): “This is particularly noteworthy for human-edible energy returns on human-edible energy investment because a purported benefit of ruminant production is that they can be raised on forage and coproduct materials not directly consumable by humans, hence reducing competition for scarce food crops (72).”
Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain) (2011, background): “One view would be that feeding animals grains that could be consumed more efficiently by humans represents a sub-optimal use of prime arable land (UNEP, 2009; Garnett, 2009).”
Limiting livestock production to pasture and by-products in a search for sustainable diets (2016, methodology): “In a future in which livestock production is restricted by the principle of feeding on ecological leftovers, food systems would need to be more localised and the availability of land, water and by-products would constitute site-specific constraints and opportunities for agriculture (Garnett, 2009).”
Missing carbon reductions? Exploring rebound and backfire effects in UK households (2010, background): “15 For example, livestock have been shown to account for a significant proportion of GHG emissions and therefore a diet with less meat and dairy foods is expected (without taking account of the rebound effect) to result in lower emissions and to produce monetary savings (Garnett 2008; Garnett 2009).”
Persistence of cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: A spatial analysis of the rationale for beef production (2012, background): “Between 60% and 80% of HG emissions from land use change in Brazil are attributed to attle ranching (Wassenaar et al., 2007; Garnett, 2009; Zaks et al., 009; de Gouvello et al., 2010), and when combined with CO2 and ethane from livestock production4 and growing of crops for livetock feed…”
Food security and sustainable intensification (2014, background): “Any serious attempt to reduce the rise in global temperature must include the agriculture sector, and this may constrain some avenues for increasing production [34–37].”
The interconnected challenges for food security from a food regimes perspective: Energy, climate and malconsumption (2013, unknown): “However, it is also linked to climate change given that it invariably includes increased consumption of meat products which have higher greenhouse gas intensity than do other food products (Garnett, 2009).”
On the merits of plant-based proteins for global food security: Marrying macro and micro perspectives (2011, background): “The incomparability of criteria related to conversion efficiency and foodfeed competition illustrates how LCA becomes problematical in matters of livestock products (Garnett, 2009).”
The bare necessities: How much household carbon do we really need? (2010, background): “A diet with less meat and dairy foods would result in lower emissions, as livestock have been shown to account for a significant proportion of GHG emissions (Garnett 2008; Garnett 2009).”
Physiological adaptability of livestock to heat stress: an updated review. (2018, background): “changes in climate may negatively affect the quantity and quality of feed available for livestock and also enhances the competition for the existing natural resources (Garnett 2009).”