Gerber et al 2013. The conversion of forests into agricultural land and livestock ranches is one of the major causes of deforestation globally.
A cattle ranch in california.
Livestock ranching climate. By sarah brown published. In 2017 the earth s atmosphere absorbed almost 600m tons of methane from all sources up 9 from the early years of the century. Furthermore almost all brazilian cattle are grazed on degraded pastures resulting in very inefficient land use for cattle farming.
As such cattle ranching activities have caused up to 90 of brazil s recent deforestation and around 75 of country wide greenhouse gas emissions contributing to climate change. Monday 29 april 2019. Mitigation strategies aimed at reducing emissions of this sector are needed to limit the environmental burden from food production while ensuring a sufficient supply of food for a growing world population.
The links between agriculture and climate are as old as the indus valley civilization and as current as this year s mississippi basin floods. The livestock sector requires a significant amount of natural resources and is responsible for about 14 5 of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions 7 1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents for the year 2005. And stories about how each influences the other will likely unfold at an ever faster rate according to this week s tipsheet.
The equation between livestock farming and global warming. The backstory with an outline of the interactions between ag and global warming plus story ideas and reporting resources. Climate change how livestock farming affects the environment.
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