Livestock's long shadow : environmental issues and options

Steinfeld Henning, Gerber Pierre, Wassenaar Tom, Castel Vincent, Rosales Mauricio, De Haan Cees. 2006. Livestock's long shadow : environmental issues and options. Rome : FAO, 414 p. ISBN 978-92-5105571-7

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM

Ouvrage

Version publiée - Anglais
Accès réservé aux personnels Cirad
Utilisation soumise à autorisation de l'auteur ou du Cirad.
document_553609.pdf
Télécharger (19MB)

Résumé : Présentation de l'éditeur : This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment takes into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feed crop agriculture required for livestock production. The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost

Mots-clés Agrovoc : bétail, recensement agricole, élevage, impact sur l'environnement, évaluation de l'impact sur l'environnement, production animale, pollution par l'agriculture, dégradation des terres, changement climatique, secteur agroindustriel, atténuation des effets du changement climatique