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Environmental and Human Health Challenges of Industrial Livestock and Poultry Farming in China and their Mitigation
in the context of growing industrialized livestock and poultry production in China, this review article examines the pollutants emitted by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and their consequences for CAFO workers, communities, and the food system.
More DetailsNature-Positive Goals For An Organization’s Food Consumption
This study explores different paths towards mitigating negative biodiversity impacts in organizations’ food consumption, using a college cafeteria in the United Kingdom (UK) as a case study.
More DetailsEuropean Air Pollution by Source Sector, 2011- 2021
Specific to the food system, data is available for the following sectors: agriculture/forest/fishing activities, manure management (e.g., dairy cattle, other cattle, sheep, and pigs), animal manure applied to soil, urine and dung deposited by grazing animals, and farm-level agricultural operations.
More DetailsThe Spatial Organization of CAFOs and its Relationship to Water Quality in the United States
Data spanning 2005-2014 from 16 states in the U.S. shows the spatial organization of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to be highly indicative of surrounding water quality, with clusters of CAFOs presenting higher near concentrations of total nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P).
More DetailsReview: Associations among Goods, Impacts and Ecosystem Services Provided by Livestock Farming
This review quantifies the decrease in environmental impacts (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen deposits, land-use demand) in relation to a decrease in livestock production.
More DetailsCattle in the Anthropocene: Four Propositions
The authors define the anthropocene as “a proposed geological epoch” in which humanity is the primary cause of global changes. They identify and evaluate four propositions concerning the growing global impacts of the cattle industries using the Australian context.
More DetailsAdoption of Plant-Based Diets Across Europe Can Improve Food Resilience Against The Russia–Ukraine Conflict
In this paper, published as a Brief Communication, researchers utilized a physical environmentally extended multiregional input-output (EEMRIO) model to assess the environmental impacts of transitioning from current national average diets to the EAT-Lancet’s plant-based planetary health diet in the European Union and the United Kingdom.
More DetailsEffects of free-ranging livestock on occurrence and interspecific interactions of a mammalian community
Within the Mongolian Altai Mountains, most of the 14 species of wild animals and farmed animals included in the study were often found in the same areas at the same time.
More DetailsExploring the Biophysical Option Space for Feeding the World Without Deforestation
Looking at 500 scenarios with a variety of diets, vegetarian and vegan diets had the highest feasibility rates for meeting the global food supply by 2050 without clearing any further forests for agriculture. Human diets were found to be most important in creating a zero-deforestation world rather than increasing cropland yields and cropland expansion.
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