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Livestock and climate change: impact of livestock on climate and mitigation strategies

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dc.creator Grossi, Giampiero
dc.creator Goglio, Pietro
dc.creator Vitali, Andrea
dc.creator Williams, Adrian G.
dc.date 2018-11-23T10:20:57Z
dc.date 2018-11-23T10:20:57Z
dc.date 2018-11-12
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-25T16:40:08Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-25T16:40:08Z
dc.identifier Giampiero Grossi, Pietro Goglio, Andrea Vitali and Adrian G Williams. Livestock and climate change: impact of livestock on climate and mitigation strategies. Volume 9, Issue 1, 3 January 2019, pp. 69–76
dc.identifier 2160-6056
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1093/af/vfy034
dc.identifier http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13672
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/182526
dc.description Introduction: According to the United Nations (UN, 2017), the world population increased by approximately 1 billion inhabitants during the last 12 years, reaching nearly 7.6 billion in 2017. Although this growth is slower than 10 years ago (1.24% vs. 1.10% per year), with an average increase of 83 million people annually, global population will reach about 8.6 billion in 2030 and 9.8 billion in 2050. Population growth, urbanization, and income rise in developing countries are the main driver of the increased demand for livestock products (UN, 2017). The livestock sector requires a significant amount of natural resources and is responsible for about 14.5% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (7.1 Gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents for the year 2005; Gerber et al., 2013). Mitigation strategies aimed at reducing emissions of this sector are needed to limit the environmental burden from food production while ensuring a sufficient supply of food for a growing world population. The objectives of this manuscript are to 1) discuss the main greenhouse gas emissions sources from the livestock sector and 2) summarize the best mitigation strategies.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Oxford University Press
dc.rights Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject climate change
dc.subject greenhouse gases
dc.subject livestock
dc.subject mitigation
dc.title Livestock and climate change: impact of livestock on climate and mitigation strategies
dc.type Article


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