Livestock Production: Climate and Sustainability Impacts

Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health.

Food provides energy and nutrients, but its acquisition requires energy expenditure. In post-hunter-gatherer societies, extra-somatic energy has greatly expanded and intensified the catching, gathering, and production of food. Modern relations between energy, food, and health are very complex, raising serious, high-level policy challenges. Together with persistent widespread under-nutrition, ov...

Livestock and Climate Change: Mitigation Strategies to Reduce Methane Production

Environmental impacts and sustainability of egg production systems.

As part of a systemic assessment toward social sustainability of egg production, we have reviewed current knowledge about the environmental impacts of egg production systems and identified topics requiring further research. Currently, we know that 1) high-rise cage houses generally have poorer air quality and emit more ammonia than manure belt (MB) cage houses; 2) manure removal frequency in MB...

Livestock and Climate Change

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) acknowledges climate change as one of the factors affecting rural poverty and as one of the challenges it needs to address. While climate change is a global phenomenon, its negative impacts are more severely felt by poor people in developing countries who rely heavily on the natural resource base for their livelihoods. Agriculture and l...

Economic impacts of climate variabity on water use and production of wheat in the khouzestan province

In this study a research, there was conducted on the change regarding the climatic parameters oftemperature and rainfall along with their sequential quantitative changes in the province Khouzestan.Then the economic effect on water use and the net income of wheat, was assessed by applyingRicardian method. The results of the statistical analysis using Mann-Kendall test proved the existenceof the ...