An April 2012 workshop sets out to determine the best options (1) for producing food that will generate lower levels of greenhouse gases, which cause global warming; (2) for producing much greater amounts of food, which are needed to feed the region’…
‘Livestock and resource use in the context of climate change’, presentation by Andy Jarvis to the Livestock Donor Agency Group in Washington DC, 2012. Other authors of this presentation are C Peterson, P Thornton, P Ericksen, M Herrero and…
‘A new global alliance for a safer, fairer and more sustainable livestock sector’, joint communique by AU/IBAR, ASEAN, BMGF, FAO, IFAD, ILRI, OIE and World Bank, Apr 2012.
Conspicuous by its absence at the recent Planet Under Pressure conference in London (26–29 Mar 2012) was the topic of livestock production, e.g., that some 1.3 billion people rely on livestock for their livelihoods, or that nearly 1 billion people ar…
