The livestock sector globally consttutes a development conundrum: the benefts and the costs are both mult-faceted and highly context-specifc, and their honest appraisal defes simple analysis and easy categorizaton. In the past, changes in the demand for livestock products have been largely driven...
Thornton, Philip K.
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[How will the world perceive livestock agriculture in relation to the impacts on, and of, climate change?]
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How will the world perceive livestock agriculture in relation to the impacts on, and of, climate change?
Herrero, Mario T.
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Thornton, Philip K.
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[Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems]
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Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from livestock systems
What is known about the likely impacts of climate change on resource-poor livestock keepers in the developing world? Relatively little, and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) are working to ...
Thornton, Philip K.
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Steeg, Jeannette van de
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Notenbaert, An Maria Omer
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Herrero, Mario T.
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[Climate change: do we know how it will affect smallholder livestock farmers?]
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Climate change: do we know how it will affect smallholder livestock farmers?
An analysis of the effects of climate change on 22 critical agricultural commodities and three important natural resources in the developing world reveals a number of cross-cutting themes: The world’s agricultural systems face an uphill struggle in feeding a projected nine to ten billion people b...
Thornton, Philip K.
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[Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming Will Change More Than Just the Climate]
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Recalibrating Food Production in the Developing World: Global Warming Will Change More Than Just the Climate