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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetSafety Certified Free-Range Duck Supply Chains Enhance both Public Health and Livelihoods
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Book (stand-alone)Greenhouse gas emissions from pig and chicken supply chains – A global life cycle assessment
A global life cycle assessment
2013Also available in:
No results found.The livestock sector is one of the fastest growing subsectors of the agricultural economy, and faces several unprecedented and concomitant challenges. The sector needs to respond to the increasing demands for livestock products that are arising from population growth and changing consumer preferences. It also has to adapt to changes in the economic and policy contexts, and in the natural environment upon which production depends. At the same time, it has to improve its environmental performanc e and mitigate its impact on climate. The pig sector is the biggest contributor to global meat production, with 37 percent in 2010. Chicken meat accounts for about 24 percent. Global demand for pig meat, chicken meat and chicken eggs are forecast to grow by 32 percent, 61 percent and 39 percent respectively during the period 2005-2030. If the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions intensities (emission intensity; or the kg of GHG per kg of product) of these commodities are not reduced, the increa ses in production required to meet demand will lead to proportionate increases in GHG emissions. Improving our understanding of where and why emissions arise in livestock supply chains is an important step towards identifying ways to improve efficiency and reduce emissions intensity. This report presents a life cycle assessment (LCA) of the GHG emissions arising from pig and chicken supply chains. It provides a detailed analysis of emissions according to region, sector and systems of product ion. In addition to informing efforts to reduce GHG emissions, it is hoped that the assessment will also help inform public debate on this important subject. -
DocumentSupply Chain Auditing for Poultry Production in Thailand
Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative: A Living from Livestock
2008Also available in:
No results found.This report provides a schematic overview of the supply chain and resource flows for three models of poultry production: backyard producer, medium contractor, and industrial. By elucidating the vertical and horizontal linkages that bind these actors into a web of formal and informal economic relationships, we want to facilitate better understanding of how actors will be affected by changes in policy regulation or shocks to the sector. For the Thai poultry sector, this is important for several re asons. Large scale industrial poultry production is one of the economy’s most important sources of animal-derived food, employment, and income. At the other extreme, smallholder backyard production remains nearly ubiquitous across an extensive low income rural population. The former group is tied to some of the most important food industries in the economy, and the health of the industrial sector is critical to the country’s trade and urban living standards. The latter group is linked through lo cal livestock markets to low income networks of small enterprises that spread pro-poor multiplier effects across most of the country’s diverse land area.
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