02119cam a22003257a 4500 9789251055717 9251055718 FQG 338 FOO 2006 A079 Or. Steinfeld, Henning. Livestock's long shadow : environmental issues and options / Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006. xxiv, 390 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm. "The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref. "TC/M/A0701E/1/11.06/5000"--P. [4] of cover. 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. Livestock Animal industry Biodiversity. Environmental degradation. Gerber, Pierre. Wassenaar, T. D. Castel, Vincent. Rosales M., Mauricio. Haan, Cees de, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Livestock, Environment and Development (Firm) http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0709/2007397855.html EK 15857 15857 0 0 0 338_000000000000000_FOO_2006_A079_OR 0 69604 LBA LBA A079 2017-12-13 338 FOO 2006 A079 Or. A11029 2017-12-13 2017-12-13 EK