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The Livestock Footprint

We don't have one planet for humans and another for other species. If we wish to avoid pandemics from zoonoses, such as COVID-19 and other types of influenza, we must address direct and indirect…

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Sustainable Livestock Systems

This chapter discusses the issues surrounding livestock production. Livestock is produced for high-value protein, but the justification of intense production of livestock on the grounds of carbon…

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Case Study: Livestock

This chapter discusses three areas of the livestock sector: the importance of the sector, the rich diversity within livestock, and some of the challenges facing the sector. Livestock products are…

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The Savanna Grasslands

This chapter provides an overview of grasslands. They are highly vulnerable to development pressures; in the United States, this is the prairie biome. Prairie soils are rich in nutrients and have…

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