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Livestock in a Changing Landscape (Volume 1): Drivers Consequences, and Responses

Year of publication 2010

Pages 450

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Publisher Island Press, Washington D.C ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially their increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Livestock in a Changing Landscape offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends and presents new, sustainable, approaches to the challenges created by fundamental shifts in livestock management and production. The two volumes represent an essential resource for policy makers, industry managers, an d academics. Volume 1, Drivers Consequences, and Responses, examines the forces shaping change in livestock production and management; the resulting impacts on landscapes, land use, and social systems; and potential policy and management responses.

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