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Livestock & climate change

Year of publication 2016

Pages 2p.

Author AGAL

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

ISBN No ISBN

Series number AG Dept Factsheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Smallholder livestock keepers, fisherfolks and pastoralists are among the most vulnerable to climate change. Moreover, 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from livestock supply chains. It amounts to a staggering 7.1 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) per year. The main sources of emissions are: feed production and processing and methane from ruminants’ digestion. The good news is that wider adoption of existing best practices and technologies in anima l feeding, health and husbandry, and manure management could help the global livestock sector be more resilient and cut its emissions of greenhouse gases as much as 30%.

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